"metalayer" meaning in English

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          "text": "That is, each sketch has a special layer, the metalayer. Every other layer in the sketch appears as a glyph on the metalayer. The content of these glyphs is the content of the layer they depict.",
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          "ref": "2016, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems, page 35:",
          "text": "Also, many companies do not possess the necessary methodology for creation of the metalayer: the enterprise-wide business architecture which uses a high level of consistency in its interfaces.",
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        "A layer of layers; a layer existing at the metalevel."
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