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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 (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 Foundati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 study or endeavor (metatheory: theory about a theory; metamathematics: mathematical theories about mathematics; meta-axiomatics or meta-axiomaticity: axioms about axiomatic systems; metahumor: joking about the ways humor is expressed; etc.). Original Greek meaning In Ancient Greek, Greek, the prefix ''meta-'' is generally less esoteric than in English language, English; Greek ''meta-'' is equivalent to the Latin language, Latin words ''post-'' or ''ad-''. The use of the prefix in this sense occurs occasionally in English language, scientific English terms derived from Greek (language), Greek. For example, the term ''Metatheria'' (the name for the clade of marsupial mammals) uses the prefix ''meta-'' in the sense that the ''Metatheria'' occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |