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metastructure

metastructure noun: a structure that describes another structure.

Noun

metastructure (plural metastructures)

  1. A structure that describes another structure.
    • Within any novel, even the most dramatically postmodern ones, there is a metastructure of epistemological assumptions that define the narrative values of the text […]1999, Sherryll S. Mleynek, Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction
  2. A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials
    • We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures.2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv

Forms of metastructure

pluralmetastructures

Origin of metastructure

From meta- + structure.

Questions about metastructure

What does metastructure mean?
Metastructure means a structure that describes another structure.
What part of speech is metastructure?
Metastructure is a noun.
What is the plural of metastructure?
The plural of metastructure is metastructures.

Words near metastructure in the dictionary

  1. metastrongyloids
  2. metastrophe
  3. metastrophes
  4. metastrophic
  5. metastructural
  6. metastructure
  7. metastructures
  8. metastudies
  9. metastudtite
  10. metastudy
  11. metastylar

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