Metatable

A metatable is the section of a database or other data holding structure that is designated to hold data that will act as source code or metadata. In most cases, specific software has been written to read the data from the metatables and perform different actions depending on the data it finds.

gollark: I have been known to do this, yes.
gollark: 3 megajoules, actually.
gollark: Oops. I seem to have accidentally had broken offsite backups for the past 1.5 weeks.
gollark: Factorio is at least 3.
gollark: It's going to be very !!FUN!! if advancing technology in 20 years or so means people can just print bioweapons on their desktop.
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