Metatable
Encyclopedia
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.
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
or other data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...
holding structure that is designated to hold data that will act as source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
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.