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meta-time

meta-time is the alternative form of metatime.

Meaning of metatime

Noun

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

  1. A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.
    • This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.
    Synonyms:
    hypertime

Forms of meta-time

pluralmeta-times

Questions about meta-time

What is meta-time the alternative form of?
Meta-time is the alternative form of metatime.

Words near meta-time in the dictionary

  1. meta-ophiolite
  2. meta-progression
  3. meta-system
  4. meta-systems
  5. meta-textual
  6. meta-time
  7. meta-times
  8. meta-tool
  9. meta-tools
  10. meta-universe
  11. meta-universes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meta-time (page history and authors); metatime (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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