"metatemplate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "First attested hyphenated in 1977 and first attested unhyphenated in 1994; formed as meta- + template.",
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      "form": "metatemplates",
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          "ref": "1977, 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – 1977 IJCAI-77, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 210, →ISBN:",
          "text": "To index the knowledge base PAR employs meta-templates and super-sets in a corresponding manner.",
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          "ref": "1994, Dan Sperber, “The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations” in Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University Press, eds. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman, page 48",
          "text": "The template–copy relationship might sometimes involve more levels. A general living-kind-categorization metatemplate could project, not directly concepts, but other, more specific templates for different domains of living kinds."
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        "A template which forms the basis for other templates."
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        {
          "word": "Help:Metatemplating"
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          "word": "meta-template"
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      "enpr": "mĕʹtətĕmplāt",
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  ],
  "word": "metatemplate"
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          "ref": "1977, 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence – 1977 IJCAI-77, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 210, →ISBN:",
          "text": "To index the knowledge base PAR employs meta-templates and super-sets in a corresponding manner.",
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          "ref": "1994, Dan Sperber, “The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations” in Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture (Cambridge University Press, eds. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman, page 48",
          "text": "The template–copy relationship might sometimes involve more levels. A general living-kind-categorization metatemplate could project, not directly concepts, but other, more specific templates for different domains of living kinds."
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    {
      "word": "meta-template"
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