Metatime

//ˌmɛtəˈtaɪm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within. countable, uncountable

    "This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make."

Synonyms

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hypertime

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"This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make."

Etymology

From meta- + time.

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