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 … >), 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), 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 (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, 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