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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
2. 2
   A construct that performs a mapping between entities at compile time.
3. 3
   A group of grammatical systems that make meanings of a related kind.

Etymology

From meta- + function.

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