metatable

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Etymology[edit]

meta- +‎ table

Noun[edit]

metatable (plural metatables)

  1. (programming, Lua) A table (of key-value pairs) associated with another object, which uses the functions (or other data) it contains to define the behaviour of that object under certain conditions.

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