Meta

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title: "Meta" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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 (``), an (X)HTML tag giving a webpage's metadata
• Metadata, data about data
• META II, a compiler-writing language
• Meta key, a modifier key on 1970s/80s workstations
• FF Meta, a typeface
• Metasequoia (software), a 3D graphics package
• Metaverse, social 3D virtual worlds
• Imagination META, a microprocessor
• Meta-Wiki, a co-ordinating Wikimedia wiki

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
• Meta River, an Orinoco tributary

Italy

• Meta, Campania, in Naples province
• Monti della Meta, an Apennine massif
  • Monte Meta (or La Meta), its main peak

United States

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

Elsewhere

• Meta (district), Oromia, Ethiopia
• 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
• Meta River, a tributary of the Desna in Ukraine

Science and technology

• Meta (chemistry), a nomenclature prefix for substituents or dehydration
• 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

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