metatemplate

Etymology
First attested hyphenated in 1977 and first attested unhyphenated in 1994; formed as.

Noun

 * 1) A  which forms the  for other templates.
 * 2) * 1994, Dan Sperber, “The modularity of thought and the epidemiology of representations” in Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture ( Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521429931, eds. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld and Susan A. Gelman, page 48
 * The template–copy relationship might sometimes involve more levels. A general living-kind-categorization metatemplate could project, not directly concepts, but other, more specific templates for different domains of living kinds.
 * The template–copy relationship might sometimes involve more levels. A general living-kind-categorization metatemplate could project, not directly concepts, but other, more specific templates for different domains of living kinds.