metafunction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

metafunction metafunctions

Etymology

From meta- + function.

Related words

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