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• meta: /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ [from analytic philosophy] adj.
  pref. One level of description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language....
• hacker humor A distinctive style of shared intellectual humor found among hackers, having the following marked characteristic
  1. Fascination with form-vs.-content jokes, paradoxes, and humor having to do with confusion of metalevels (see meta)....
• Meta-physics is meta-difficult.
• HLL /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech.
  Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found....
• AI-complete /A-I k*m-pleet'/ adj. [MIT, Stanford
  by analogy with `NP-complete' (see NP-)] Used to describe problems or subproblems in AI, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the `strong AI problem' (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence)....
• HLL: /H-L-L/ n. [High-Level Language (as opposed to assembler)] Found primarily in email and news rather than speech.
  Rarely, the variants `VHLL' and `MLL' are found....
• alt bit /awlt bit/ [from alternate] adj. See meta bit.
• indent style n. [C, C++, and Java programmers] The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion.
  There are four major C indent styles, described below...
• cokebottle /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character, particularly one you can't type because it isn't on your keyboard.
  MIT people used to complain about the `control-meta-cokebottle' commands at SAIL, and SAIL people complained right back about the `escape-escape-cokebottle' commands at MIT....