English edit

Etymology edit

meta- +‎ property

Noun edit

metaproperty (plural metaproperties)

  1. (computing, philosophy) A property of a property.
    • 2002, Rahul Sharma, Microsoft SQL Server 2000: A Guide to Enhancements and New Features:
      The metaproperties allow you to extract more information (such as relative position and namespace information) about XML nodes than is visible in the textual representation.