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meta- (met′ə)
- change in position or form, alteration, transposition metathesis, metasomatism
- after metapneumonic
- behind, at the back metanephros
Etymology: < supposed analogy to metaphysics
going beyond or higher, transcending: used to form terms designating an area of study whose purpose is to examine the nature, assumptions, structure, etc. of a (specified) field metalinguistics, metacriticism- between metope
- Chem.
- a polymer of metaldehyde
- a derivative of metaprotein
- a less hydrated acid or salt metaphosphoric acid
- characterized by substitutions in the 1, 3 position in the benzene ring: usually italicized and hyphenated in chemical names meta-aminobenzoic acid
Etymology: < Gr meta, along with, after, between, among < IE *meta < base *me-, between > mid
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