META-; MET-

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

2.
n.

Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.


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