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 tag giving a webpage's metadata
Metadata, data about data
META II, a compiler-writing language
Meta key, a modifier key on 1970s, 1980s workstations
FF Meta, a typeface
Metasequoia (software), a 3D graphics package
Metaverse, social 3D virtual worlds
Imagination META, a microprocessor
Meta-Wiki, a co-ordinating Wikimedia wiki

Entertainment

Metagame, or meta, an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules
Meta, a pole marking racetrack turns in a Roman circus
Meta (Assemblage 23 album), 2007
Meta (Car Bomb album), 2016
Meta, a 2016 album by Thy Catafalque
META, a 2023 album by PinocchioP

People

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

Places

Colombia

Meta Department
Meta River, an Orinoco tributary

Italy

Meta, Campania, in Naples province
Monti della Meta, an Apennine massif
- Monte Meta (or La Meta), its main peak

United States

Meta, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
Meta, Missouri, a city

Elsewhere

Meta (district), Oromia, Ethiopia
1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
Meta River, a tributary of the Desna in Ukraine

Science and technology

Meta (chemistry), a nomenclature prefix for substituents or dehydration
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
Metaʼ language, spoken in Cameroon
Middle East Theatre Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

See also

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