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metacondition

metacondition noun: a condition dependent on other conditions.

Noun

metacondition (plural metaconditions)

  1. A condition dependent on other conditions.
    • The phenomenon cannot be described, she pointed out, by talking about individual changes in transformational rules or whatnot: Rather, it must be described as a metacondition on the way the grammar of a language as a whole will change.2003, Raymond Hickey, Motives for Language Change, page 104

Forms of metacondition

pluralmetaconditions

Origin of metacondition

From meta- + condition.

Questions about metacondition

What does metacondition mean?
Metacondition means a condition dependent on other conditions.
What part of speech is metacondition?
Metacondition is a noun.
What is the plural of metacondition?
The plural of metacondition is metaconditions.

Words near metacondition in the dictionary

  1. metaconal
  2. metaconcept
  3. metaconcepts
  4. metaconceptual
  5. metaconceptually
  6. metacondition
  7. metaconditions
  8. metacone
  9. metacones
  10. metaconflict
  11. metaconflicts

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