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metatypes

metatypes is the plural of metatype.

Meaning of metatype

Noun

metatype (plural metatypes)

  1. A topotype of a species which is confirmed as belonging to that species by the author who originally described it
  2. The type of a type.
    • The Type suffix specifies that this variable will be a metatype and not an object (meaning the implementation class and not an instance of it).2015, Adam Freeman, Pro Design Patterns in Swift, Apress, →ISBN, page 199

Questions about metatypes

What is metatypes the plural of?
Metatypes is the plural of metatype.

Words near metatypes in the dictionary

  1. metatuffs
  2. metatungstate
  3. metatungstates
  4. metatungstic acid
  5. metatype
  6. metatypes
  7. metatypical
  8. metatypy
  9. metatyuyamunite
  10. metaunderstanding
  11. metaunderstandings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metatypes (page history and authors); metatype (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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