metasyntactic
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metasyntactic (not comparable)
- (linguistics, computing) Used in describing syntax; relating to metasyntax.
- 2001, John N. Shutt, What is Grammar?[1]:
- Metasyntactic values, in the sense I'm using here, are descriptive of syntax, as for example the nonterminals of a Chomsky grammar.