Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metacrawler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metacrawler
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.

Example Sentences

"[…] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases."

Etymology

From meta- + crawler.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: meta

Inflected Forms

metacrawlers (plural)

Questions

What does metacrawler mean?: An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.
Where does metacrawler come from?: From meta- + crawler.

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