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Uni vs Meta - What's the difference?

uni | meta |

As nouns the difference between uni and meta

is that uni is university while meta is boundary marker.

As an adjective meta is

self-referential; at a higher level.

uni

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) University.

    • Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (-)
  • Sea urchin eaten as sushi.
  • * The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/travel/in-japan-searching-for-prized-sea-urchins.html?_r=0]
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    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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