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In this sense, the questions like \u201cWhat methods should we choose in the combination?\u201d and \u201cWhat combination function or the weights should we choose for the methods\u201d are handled in the proposed method. Thus, the first two contributions that the paper aims to propose are to obtain the optimum weights and the proper forecasting methods in combination functions by employing meta fuzzy functions (MFFs). MFFs are recently introduced for aggregating different methods on a specific topic. Although meta-analysis aims to combine the findings of different primary studies, MFFs aim to aggregate different methods based on their performances on a specific topic. Thus, forecasting is selected as the specific topic to propose a novel forecast combination approach inspired by MFFs in this study. Another contribution of the paper is to improve the performance of MFFs by employing intuitionistic fuzzy c-means. 14 meteorological datasets are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method. Results showed that the proposed method can be a handy tool for dealing with forecasting problems. 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