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metaprogram

The English word “metaprogram” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A thinking pattern which determines what information a person takes note of and what information they screen out.
  2. A computer program that writes or manipulates other programs as data, or does the work at runtime that would otherwise be done at compile time.

Etymology

From meta- + program.

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