Meta
Appearance
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 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Meta (name), list of people with the given name or surname
- Pseudonym of contemporary artist Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001)
Places
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[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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