Metasyntactic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax. not-comparable

    "Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar."

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"Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar."

Etymology

From meta- + syntactic.

Related phrases

metasyntactic variable

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