metafunction
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]metafunction (plural metafunctions)
- (programming) A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- (programming) A construct that performs a mapping between entities at compile time.
- (linguistics) A group of grammatical systems that make meanings of a related kind.