noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out.
2. 2
   A computer program that writes or manipulates other programs as data, or does the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile time.

Etymology

From meta- + program.

Related phrases

screen out

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