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Etymology
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meta-
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table
Noun
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metatable
(
plural
metatables
)
(
programming
,
Lua
)
A
table
(of key-value pairs) associated with another
object
, which uses the
functions
(or other data) it contains to define the behaviour of that object under certain conditions.
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object-oriented programming
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tablemate