metamodel
nounA metamodel is a model that describes other models, like a blueprint for making blueprints.
The software team built a metamodel to define how all their other models should be structured.
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2. In software engineering, a model that specifies the rules and structure for constructing a family of models.
UML is defined by a metamodel that describes how its diagrams are built.
3. In systems thinking, a simplified framework used to understand and compare different conceptual models.
The researcher used a metamodel to compare how various theories explained the same phenomenon.
4. A higher-level abstraction that captures the common features of several related models.
By creating a metamodel, the analysts could see what all the department's process models had in common.