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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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/80s 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
[edit]- Meta (Assemblage 23 album), 2007
- Meta (Car Bomb album), 2016
- Meta (Thy Catafalque album), 2016
- Meta (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns
- Metagame (clipped to meta), an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules
People
[edit]- Meta (name), list of people with the given name or surname
- Pseudonym of contemporary artist Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001)
Places
[edit]Colombia
[edit]- Meta Department
- Meta River, an Orinoco tributary
Italy
[edit]- Meta, Campania, in Naples province
- Monti della Meta, an Apennine massif
- Monte Meta (or La Meta), its main peak
United States
[edit]- Meta, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Meta, Missouri, a city
Elsewhere
[edit]- Meta (district), Oromia, Ethiopia
- 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
- Meta River, a tributary of the Desna in Ukraine
Science and technology
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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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