metafunction

English

Etymology

meta- + function

Noun

metafunction (plural metafunctions)

  1. (programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
  2. (programming) A construct that performs a mapping between entities at compile time.
  3. (linguistics) A group of grammatical systems that make meanings of a related kind.
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