Meanings
- rareuncountablecomputingSoftware that controls or manages other software.
The performance of a PC LAN effectively stands or falls with its metasoftware. Let us recall the environment for a network described in section 1.1. The most obvious demands on the metasoftware are as follows: […]
1989, Franz-Joachim Kauffels, Understanding Data Communications, page 1051 more example
Computers also have metasoftware in the form of user instructions. There are many kinds of such instructions: instructions to the computer as a whole, instructions to different program systems and separate programs […]
2005, Susan Shannon, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, page 11
Origin
Cite this entry
metasoftware. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metasoftware
“metasoftware.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metasoftware. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metasoftware,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metasoftware.
Source: metasoftware on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.