Metacondition

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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