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informal
: showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential
"The Bar?" she said. "I know the place. Been meaning to drop by. Love the name. Very meta."—
Gillian Flynn
The meta gift of the year: a picture of a lamp that actually lights up. Designer Finn Magee's trompe l'oeil is printed on plastic, embedded with electronics, and equipped with a cord and switch.—
Karissa Bell et al.
variants
or met-
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a
: involving substitution at or characterized by two positions in the benzene ring that are separated by one carbon atom
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