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metacharacterA character that is not supposed to be treated normally. Which characters are to be treated specially as metacharacters varies greatly from context to context. Your shell will have certain metacharacters, double-quoted Perl strings have other metacharacters, and regular expression patterns have all the double-quote metacharacters plus some extra on [..]
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metacharacterA character
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metacharacter
(computing) A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
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