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metacircularity

noun

Etymology

From meta- + circularity.

  1. derived from circulus
  2. derived from circularis
  3. derived from circulier
  4. inherited from circuler
  5. suffixed as circularity — “circular + ity”
  6. prefixed as metacircularity — “meta + circularity”

Definitions

  1. The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it…

    The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it interprets, and that exploits homoiconicity to reuse the existing facilities of the parent interpreter rather than reimplementing them.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metacircularity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA