metastructure

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English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ structure.

Noun

metastructure (plural metastructures)

  1. A structure that describes another structure.
    • 1999, Sherryll S. Mleynek, Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction:
      Within any novel, even the most dramatically postmodern ones, there is a metastructure of epistemological assumptions that define the narrative values of the text []
  2. (physics) 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.