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eta | meta |

As a determiner eta

is many.

As an adjective meta is

meta.

eta

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.
  • (particle) A kind of electrically neutral meson having zero spin and isospin.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A social outcast in Japan who is subjected to menial work, making up a class or caste of such people.

    • Anagrams

    * , (l), (l), (l), (l) English heteronyms ----

    meta

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do? citation
    • , passage=Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta , very '97. I can't use it." }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • boundary marker
  • Either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus

    • Anagrams

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