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metasoftware

metasoftware noun: software that controls or manages other software.

Noun

metasoftware (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Software that controls or manages other software.
    • The performance of a PC LAN effectively stands or falls with its metasoftware. Let us recall the environment for a network described in section 1.1. The most obvious demands on the metasoftware are as follows: […]1989, Franz-Joachim Kauffels, Understanding Data Communications, page 105
    • Computers also have metasoftware in the form of user instructions. There are many kinds of such instructions: instructions to the computer as a whole, instructions to different program systems and separate programs […]2005, Susan Shannon, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, page 11

Origin of metasoftware

meta- + software

Questions about metasoftware

What does metasoftware mean?
Metasoftware means software that controls or manages other software.
What part of speech is metasoftware?
Metasoftware is a noun.

Words near metasoftware in the dictionary

  1. metaskill
  2. metaskills
  3. metasocial
  4. metasociological
  5. metasociology
  6. metasoftware
  7. metasoma
  8. metasomal
  9. metasomas
  10. metasomatic
  11. metasomatically

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