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pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody.

pertaining to or noting an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary, especially one that consciously references something of its own type.

a consciously and playfully self-referential story, conversation, etc..

an abstract, high-level analysis or commentary.

a prefix appearing in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on the Greek model.

a prefix added to the name of a subject and designating another subject that analyzes the original one but at a more abstract, higher level.

a prefix added to the name of something that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features.

Chemistry.��

1. (of acids, salts, or their organic derivatives) a prefix denoting the least hydrated of a series.

   meta-antimonic, HSbO3;

   meta-antimonous, HSbO2.

2. a prefix designating the meta position in the benzene ring. m-.