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Beyond or at a higher-level.

The prefix, when attached to the front of a subject refers to another subject that covers ulterior issues relating to the first subject.

An example in IT is Metadata. Metadata includes information that describes the data itself. In research, a theory has meta-theory which is the description regarding how the theory itself is structured.

In Biology, the metasomatomic opening is the space through which the nostril runs - it is the space between two segments of bone.
It is a prefix appearing in loan words from Greek, - meaning after, along, beyond, among and behind

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