Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

metavariable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: metavari-able
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.

Example Sentences

"The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun."
"If it is a programming language, it will almost always have its own notion of variables, and hence the distinction between object-language variables and metavariables is useful."

Etymology

From meta- + variable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: meta

Inflected Forms

metavariables (plural)

Questions

What does metavariable mean?: A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.
Where does metavariable come from?: From meta- + variable.

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