Meta Explained

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 (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

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

Places

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

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

See also