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Meta Refresh: A meta tag used to make a browser refresh to another URL location. Generally in most cases it is preferred to use a 301 or 302 redirect over a meta refresh.

Metapopulation: A group of interconnected subpopulations, usually of subequal size. The features of individuals now founnd in one subpopulation might have been determined by conditions affecting them when t . . . View Full Definition

Metapoetry: Poetry about poetry, especially self-conscious poems that pun on objects or items associated with writing or creating poetry. Among the Romantic and Enlightenment poets, we find puns on leav . . . View Full Definition

Metaplasmus: A type of neologism in which misspelling a word creates a rhetorical effect. To emphasize dialect, one might spell dog as 'dawg.' To emphasize that something is unimportant, we might add -le . . . View Full Definition

Metar: Acronym for METeorological Aerodrome Report. It is the primary observation code used in the United States to satisfy requirements for reporting surface meteorological data. Minimum reporting . . . View Full Definition

Metastasis: The process in which cancer cells break away from the original tumor mass and establish new tumor sites elsewhere in the body.

Metathesis: The transposition of two sounds in speech or spelling. This tendency often catches students of Middle English off guard, since they might encounter the spelling brid for bird or hwale for whale.

Metatarsus: (p1. metatarsi: adj. metatarsal) The sixth segment of the leg, counting from the body.

Metaphysical Poets: John donne (1572-1631) and his imitators, including george herbert, andrew marvell, abraham cowley, richard crashaw, and henry vaughan, whose works are characterized (not exclusively) by col . . . View Full Definition

Metaphor: A comparison that is made literally, either by a verb (for example, john keats' 'beauty is truth, truth beauty' from his 'ode on a grecian urn') or, less obviously, by a combination of adjec . . . View Full Definition