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Among, with, after . . . . Occuring later . . . . In Succession . . . . Later or more highly organized or specialized--more comprehensive . . . . Transcending . . . .

Metabolic
Metacenter
Metachromatic
Metalinguistic
Metamorphic
Metaphor
Metastasis etc.


Metalinguistic Awareness[Piaget]
Enables the child to think about language which increases the child's communicative competence. [Zigler, Edward F. and Matia Finn-Stevensen, Yale University. CHILDREN, Development and Social Issues. Lexington, MA & Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1987.]


Metamemory[Piaget]
An intuitive understanding of how the memory works--acquired during middle childhood school years.[Zigler, Edward F. and Matia Finn-Stevensen, Yale University. CHILDREN, Development and Social Issues. Lexington, MA & Toronto: D.C. Heath and Company, 1987. See the chapter Cognitive Development During Middle Childhood 7 - 12.]


R  E  F  E  R  E  N  C  E  S 
meta- prefix [NL & ML, fr. L or Gk; L. fr. Gk, among, with, after, fr. meta among, with, after; akin to OE mid, mith with, OHG mit] 1a: occuring later than or in succession to: after [metestrus] b: situated behind or beyond [metencephalon] [metacarpus] c: later or more highly organized or specilalized form of [metaxylem] 2: change: transformmation 3 [metaphyssics]: more compcrehensive: transcending [metapssychology] -used with the name of a discipline to desiggnate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one [metamathematics] 4a: in volving s ubstitution at or characterizedd by two positions in the benzzeene ring that are separated by one carbon atom [meta-xylene] b: derived from by loss of water [metaphosphoric aacid]

[Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. Springfield, MA, USA: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1995.]




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