Meaning of metavariable | Babel Free

Definitions

A symbol or string of symbols belonging to a metalanguage and standing for elements of some object language.

Examples

“The pragmatic process of substitution requires some given context to provide an appropriate substituend for a metavariable projected by a pronoun.”

“If it is a programming language, it will almost always have its own notion of variables, and hence the distinction between object-language variables and metavariables is useful.”

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