Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metarule

1 sense of metarule

Sense 1
metarule -- (a rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI))
       => rule, formula -- ((mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials")