- meta-.
- (referring especially to the use of wireless electronic devices) mobile: m-commerce; m-business.
- U.S. Military. (used to designate the production model of military equipment, as the M-1 rifle.)
- a prefix found in many family names of Irish or Scottish Gaelic origin, as MacBride and Macdonald.
- variant of Mac-.
- variant of Mac-.
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- short for meta- (def. 4)
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- indicating the use of mobile-communications technologym-banking
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- a variant of Mac-
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- a variant of Mac-
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- (in surnames of Scottish or Irish Gaelic origin) son ofMacDonald; MacNeice
common element in Scottish and Irish names, from Old Celtic *makko-s “son.” Cognate root *makwos “son” produced Old Welsh map, Welsh mab, ap “son;” also probably cognate with Old English mago “son, attendant, servant,” Old Norse mögr “son,” Gothic magus “boy, servant,” Old English mægð “maid” (see maiden). abbr.
- meta-