metatime

• meta-time

From meta- +‎ time.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈtaɪm/

metatime (countable and uncountable, plural metatimes)

1. A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.

   Synonym: hypertime

   • 2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity‎, →ISBN, page 38:

     How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe […]

   • 2009 May 13, William Irwin; Richard Brown; Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am‎, →ISBN, page 149:

     Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

   • 2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion‎, →ISBN, page 148:

     My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.