Meta

Look up meta, meta-, Meta, or META in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Meta most commonly refers to:

• Meta (prefix), a common affix and word in English (lit. 'beyond' in Greek)
• Meta Platforms, an American multinational technology conglomerate (formerly Facebook, Inc.)

Meta or META may also refer to:

Businesses

• Meta (academic company), performing analysis of scientific literature (2009–2022)
• Meta (augmented reality company), a maker of digital eyewear (2013–2019)
• Meta Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline (1991–2011; formerly META)
• MetaBank, an American bank (founded 1954; now Pathward)

Computing

• Meta element (<meta … >), an (X)HTML element providing a webpage's structured metadata
• Metadata, data about data
• META II, a compiler-writing language
• Meta key, a modifier key on 1970s/80s workstation keyboards
• FF Meta, a typeface
• Metasequoia (software), a 3D computer graphics package
• Metaverse, proposed networks of 3D virtual worlds for social connection
• Imagination META, a microprocessor
• Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia Foundation project

Entertainment

• Meta (Assemblage 23 album), 2007
• Meta (Car Bomb album), 2016
• Meta (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns
• Metagame (clipped to meta), an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules
• The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima series Red vs. Blue

People

• Meta (name), list of people with the given name or surname
• Pseudonym of contemporary artist Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001)

Places

• Meta (district), a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• Meta, Campania, a town in the province of Naples, Italy
• Meta, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
• Meta, Missouri, United States, a city
• 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
• Meta Department, a department of Colombia
• Meta River, a river in Colombia
• Meta River, a Ukrainian tributary of the Desna
• Monti della Meta, a massif in central Italy

Science and technology

• Meta- (chemistry), a positional nomenclature in aromatic ring substitution
• Meta (spider), a long-jawed orb-weaver genus
• 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
• Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay, a predecessor to the SETI project
• META fuel, a solid fuel

Other uses

• Meta (mythology), first wife of Aegeus, mythical king of Athens
• Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon
• Middle East Theatre Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

See also

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• All pages with titles beginning with Meta
• All pages with titles containing Meta
• Hyper (disambiguation)
• Metta (disambiguation)
• Super (disambiguation)
• Metalanguage (disambiguation)
• Metanoia (theology)
• Metastasis, in medicine

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