Metatime
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌmɛtəˈtaɪm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metatime is a noun meaning A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.
Meaning
A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.
Example Sentences
How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…]
My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.
Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.
This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.
Word Forms
- metatimes
- meta-time
Synonyms for metatime
Depending on context, synonyms include hypertime.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metacontext, between-time, intercalary, in-between, midsequence, midtime.
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