Meta most commonly refers to: * Meta (prefix), a common affix and word in English ( in Greek) *

Meta Platforms Meta Platforms, Inc., (file no. 3835815) trade name, doing business as Meta and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns Facebo ...

, an American multinational technology conglomerate (formerly ''Facebook, Inc.'') Meta or META may also refer to:

Businesses

Meta (academic company) Meta ULC was a Canadian unlimited liability corporation performing big data analysis of scientific literature, which was acquired by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and shut down in 2021, effective in 2022. History Beginning Meta Inc., formerly ...

, performing analysis of scientific literature (2009–2022) *

Meta (augmented reality company) Meta was a company that designed augmented reality products. The company was founded by Meron Gribetz in 2012, based on the "Extramissive spatial imaging digital eye glass" technology invented by Gribetz and Mann originally filed with the US Pat ...

, a maker of digital eyewear (2013–2019) * Meta Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline (1991–2011; formerly ''META'') *

MetaBank MetaBank, N.A. is a United States bank with retail branches in Iowa and South Dakota. It offers traditional banking services designed to serve the needs of individual, agricultural, and business depositors and borrowers. MetaBank issued debit ca ...

, an American bank (founded 1954; now ''Pathward'')

Computing

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

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

, data about data *

META II META II is a domain-specific programming language for writing compilers. It was created in 1963–1964 by Dewey Val Schorre at UCLA. META II uses what Schorre called syntax equations. Its operation is simply explained as: Each ''syntax equation'' ...

, a compiler-writing language *

Meta key The Meta key is a modifier key on certain 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 (SAIL) keyboard in 1 ...

, a modifier key on 1970s/80s workstation keyboards * FF Meta, a typeface * Metasequoia (software), a 3D computer graphics package *

Metaverse In science fiction, the "metaverse" is a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal, and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) headsets. In colloquial usage, ...

, 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 (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''

Language

Meta' language Meta’ is a Grassfields language of Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria t ...

, spoken in Cameroon

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) Ita ...

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

Places

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 southeast ...

, 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 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 Meta ...

, 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 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

Science and technology

* 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 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other ...

, a predecessor to the SETI project *

META fuel Metaldehyde is an organic compound with the formula (C8H16O4). It is used as a pesticide against slugs, snails, and other gastropods. It is the cyclic tetramer of acetaldehyde. Production and properties Metaldehyde is flammable, toxic if inges ...

, a solid fuel

Other uses

* Meta (mythology), first wife of Aegeus, mythical king of Athens *

Middle East Theatre Academy The Middle East Theatre Academy (META) is a programme aimed to introduce young actors to the art of theatre and stage performance in the Middle East. The academy was launched by Emirati businessperson Badr Jafar and Hollywood screen actor, directo ...

, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates