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{{Short description|Data holding structure that is designated to hold metadata}} {{No footnotes|date=November 2021}}{{For|the object prototype mechanism in Lua|Lua (programming language)#Object-oriented programming}} 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 (computing)|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.
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