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What does the word meta mean?

What does the word mean?

Is this the same concept as in the cases below?

  • Meta-programming of templates in C ++
  • metadata in database or file systems
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In epistemology, the prefix meta means about (of its category). For example, metadata is data about data (who created it, when, in what format the data is and so on).

Link: Wikipedia

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Meta is Greek and means super (real, factual) material.

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KR, Thomas

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Template meta programs are programs that produce programs. So, this is another example of the meta-value of its category proposed by Dreas.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1712650/

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