Metacondition
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A condition dependent on other conditions.
"The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change."
Example
More examples"The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change."
Etymology
From meta- + condition.
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