metasyntax

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metasyntax - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  metasyntax
  
     <grammar> Syntax used to describe syntax.  The best known
     example is BNF and its variants such as EBNF.
  
     A metasyntactic variable is a variable used in
     metasyntax.
  
     (1999-04-06)