metaprogram

metaprogram

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor.
English meta-
English program
English metaprogram

    From meta- + program.

    Noun

    metaprogram (plural metaprograms)

    1. (neurolinguistic programming) A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out.
    2. (programming) 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.

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    References

    "Practical NLP for Managers", Ian McDermott, p. 159.

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