Meta most commonly refers to: *

Meta (prefix) ''Meta'' (from the , ''wikt:meta-, meta'', meaning 'after' or 'beyond') is an adjective meaning 'more comprehensive' or 'transcending'. In modern nomenclature, the prefix meta can also serve as a prefix meaning self-referential, as a field of stu ...

, a common affix and word in English ( in Greek) *

Meta Platforms Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads ...

, 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 most commonly refers to: * Meta (prefix), a common affix and word in English ( in Greek) * Meta Platforms, an American multinational technology conglomerate (formerly ''Facebook, Inc.'') Meta or META may also refer to: Businesses * Meta ( ...

(<meta … >), an (X)HTML element providing a webpage's structured metadata *

Metadata Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive ...

, data about data *

META II META II is a Domain-specific language, domain-specific programming language for writing compilers. It was created in 1963–1964 by Dewey Val Schorre at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). META II uses what Schorre called ''Syntax (progr ...

, a compiler-writing language *

Meta key The Meta key is a modifier key on certain Computer keyboard, keyboards. It first appeared on the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) keyboard in 1970. History The Meta key first appeared on the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SA ...

, 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 The META is a 32-bit multithreaded microprocessor developed by Metagence Technologies Division from Imagination Technologies. First version of META were developed in 2001 as META-1 multithreaded DSP core aimed for audio, radio and video processin ...

, a microprocessor * Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia Foundation project

Entertainment

* ''Meta'' (Assemblage 23 album), 2007 * ''Meta'' (Car Bomb album), 2016 *

Meta (Thy Catafalque album) Thy Catafalque is an avant-garde metal band formed in Makó, Hungary, with its activities extending to Edinburgh, Scotland, reflecting the movements of its founder. History The band was formed by Hungarian musician Tamás Kátai, along with a ...

, 2016 * Meta (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns *

Metagame A metagame, broadly defined as "a game beyond the game", typically refers to either of two concepts: a game which revolves around a core game; or the strategies and approaches to playing a game. A metagame can serve a broad range of purposes, a ...

(clipped to ''meta''), an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules

People

Meta (name) Meta is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Beqir Meta, Albanian historian * Ilir Meta (born 1969), Albanian President * Kenichiro Meta (born 1982), Japanese football player * Ermal Meta (born 1981) ...

, list of people with the given name or surname * Pseudonym of contemporary artist

Margaret Kilgallen Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist who combined graffiti art, painting, and installation art. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was ...

(1967–2001)

Places

Colombia

Meta Department Meta () is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known ...

, a department *

Meta River The Meta River is a major left tributary of the Orinoco River in eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela, South America. The Meta originates in the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Eastern Ranges of the Andes and flows through the Meta Department ...

, a tributary river of the Oronoco

Italy

Meta, Campania Meta (also unofficially known as Meta di Sorrento) is a (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 25 km southeast of Naples. Meta borders the municipalities of Piano di Sorrento and Vi ...

, a town in the province of Naples *

Monti della Meta The Monti della Meta are a massif of central Italy located around the junction point of the boundaries between the regions of Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise. The major of three massifs of the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, they take their ...

, a massif in central Italy

United States

Meta, Kentucky Meta is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky. Meta is located at the junction of Kentucky Route 1426 and Kentucky Route 2169 northeast of Pikeville. The community had a post office from 1896 to 1959. Climate The climate in ...

, an unincorporated community *

Meta, Missouri Meta is a city in Osage County, Missouri, United States. The population was 180 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area and is also the world headquarters of Diamond Pet Foods. Geography Met ...

, a city

Elsewhere

Meta (district) Meta is one of the districts in the Oromia of Ethiopia. Part of the East Hararghe Zone, Meta is bordered on the southwest by Deder, on the northwest by Goro Gutu, on the north by the Somali Region, on the northeast by Kersa, and on the southe ...

, a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia *

1050 Meta 1050 Meta, provisional designation , is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 14 September 1925, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observato ...

, a stony main-belt asteroid * Meta River, a tributary of the Desna in Ukraine

Science and technology

* Meta- (chemistry), a positional nomenclature in aromatic ring substitution * ''Meta'' (spider), a long-jawed orb-weaver genus *

, 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