8 Wintry Words to Defrost Your Vocabulary   a prefix appearing
in loanwords from Greek, with the meanings “after,” “along
with,” “beyond,” “among,” “behind,” and productive in English on
the Greek model: metacarpus; metagenesis. a prefix added to the
name of a subject and designating another subject that analyzes
the original one but at a more abstract, higher level:
metaphilosophy; metalinguistics. a prefix added to the name of
something that consciously references or comments upon its own
subject or features: a meta-painting of an artist painting a
canvas.   1. (of acids, salts, or their organic derivatives) a
prefix denoting the least hydrated of a series: meta-antimonic,
HSbO3;     meta-antimonous, HSbO2.     Compare ortho-, pyro-.
2. a prefix designating the meta position in the benzene ring.
Abbreviation: m-.     Compare ortho-, para-1 . Also, especially
before a vowel, met-. < Greek, prefix and preposition; cognate
with Old English mid ‘with’, German mit, Gothic mith Unabridged
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