In role-playing games, this means that someone with a higher level of knowledge is playing, i.e. However, it has a different meaning depending on the type of game. "Metagaming" accordingly, means game about game. The modern sense of "an X about X" has given rise to concepts like " meta-cognition" (cognition about cognition), " meta-emotion" (emotion about emotion), " meta-discussion" (discussion about discussion), " meta-joke" (joke about jokes) and " metaprogramming" (writing programs that write programs). Also, metamemory in psychology means an individual's knowledge about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. In a database, metadata are also data about data stored in a data dictionary and describe information (data) about database tables such as the table name, table owner, details about columns, – essentially describing the table. For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on). In epistemology, and often in common use, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example: the term Metatheria (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix meta- in the sense the Metatheria occur on the tree of life adjacent to the Theria (the placental mammals). The use of the prefix in this sense occurs occasionally in scientific English terms derived from Greek. In Greek, the prefix meta- is generally less esoteric than in English Greek meta- is equivalent to the Latin words post- or ad. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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