Dictionary

metatime en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌmɛtəˈtaɪm/

Etymology

From meta- + time.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.
   • 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. 1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.:
   • How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…] 2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity, →ISBN, page 38:
   • 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. 2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, →ISBN, page 149:
   • 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. 2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, →ISBN, page 148:

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Synonyms

hypertime