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 Foundation project

Entertainment

* ''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

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

Places

Colombia

* Meta Department, a department * Meta River, a tributary river of the Oronoco

Italy

* Meta, Campania, a town in the province of Naples * Monti della Meta, a massif in central Italy

United States

* Meta, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Meta, Missouri, a city

Elsewhere

* Meta (district), a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia * 1050 Meta, 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 * 1050 Meta, 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