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metarules

metarules is the plural of metarule.

Meaning of metarule

Noun

metarule (plural metarules)

  1. A rule that governs the application of other rules.
    • Indeed, man’s need for rules and his propensity to follow them is equaled only by his desire to reject rules and be free of them. […] One of the most useful methods for resolving this dilemma is our capacity for abstraction which makes it possible to construct progressively higher levels of...1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 9, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 161

Questions about metarules

What is metarules the plural of?
Metarules is the plural of metarule.

Words near metarules in the dictionary

  1. metarteriole
  2. metarterioles
  3. metarubricyte
  4. metarubricytes
  5. metarule
  6. metarules
  7. metas
  8. metasaccharinic
  9. metasaccharinic acid
  10. metasaccharinic acids
  11. metasample

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