English
Prefix
meta- (met- before a vowel and before <h> in words originating in Ancient Greek)
- Transcending, encompassing
- Pertaining to a level above or beyond, for example, metadata is data that describes data
- Analogies with metaphysics
- Classifications
- pathology Consequent on
- (anatomy and zoology) Behind
- (botany and zoology) Later or subsequent
- geology Analogies and derivatives of metamorphism
- chemistry Having fewer molecules of water than the ortho- equivalent
- chemistry in isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in alternate positions (compare ortho- and para-)
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