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metatable

noun

Etymology

From meta- + table.

  1. derived from table
  2. derived from tabula
  3. inherited from tabele
  4. inherited from table
  5. prefixed as metatable — “meta + table”

Definitions

  1. A table (of key-value pairs) associated with another object, which uses the functions (or…

    A table (of key-value pairs) associated with another object, which uses the functions (or other data) it contains to define the behaviour of that object under certain conditions.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metatable. 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