metatime

English

Alternative forms

• meta-time

Etymology

From meta- +‎ time.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈtaɪm/

Noun

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

1. A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.

   Synonym: hypertime

   • 1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.:

     This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.

   • 2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity‎^[1], →ISBN, page 38:

     How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe […]

   • 2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am‎^[2], →ISBN, page 149:

     Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

   • 2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion‎^[3], →ISBN, page 148:

     My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.