metatype

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The type of a type.

"The Type suffix specifies that this variable will be a metatype and not an object (meaning the implementation class and not an instance of it)."
"You can use a variable reference to a type (a metatype) to instantiate that type, but you can't just append parentheses to a variable reference: […]"

From meta- + type.

metatypes (plural)

metaclass

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