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metastructure en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta- + structure.

Meanings

1. A structure that describes another structure.
   • Within any novel, even the most dramatically postmodern ones, there is a metastructure of epistemological assumptions that define the narrative values of the text […] 1999, Sherryll S. Mleynek, Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction:
2. A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials
   • 2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures.

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