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| | Meta- - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The prefix is derived from the Ancient Greek meta, which is a preposition and prefix having several meanings. |
 | | One of those, meta as preposition taking the genitive case, translates as the English with; but there are others, and the verb prefix meta- in Greek, seen in metamorphosis, connotes change. |
 | | The current English usage is accidental, deriving from the classification of Aristotle's works to include the category of metaphysics, which could more or less be described as the study of the physics of physics itself. |
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