Meta (disambiguation) facts for kids

Meta is a productive prefix in English (lit. beyond in Greek) carrying a sense of transcendence or self-reference.

Meta may refer to:

Businesses

• Meta Platforms, a multinational technology company (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.)
• Meta (academic company) (2009–2022), a corporation performing analysis of scientific literature
• Meta (augmented reality company) (2013–2019), a maker of digital eyewear technology
• Meta Linhas Aéreas (formerly META), a Brazilian airline
• MetaBank, a publicly traded American bank (and division of Meta Financial)

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

Music

• Meta (Assemblage 23 album), a 2007 album
• Meta (Car Bomb album), a 2016 album

People

• Meta (name)
• Pseudonym of contemporary artist Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001)

Places

Americas

• Meta, Kentucky, United States
• Meta, Missouri, United States
• Meta Department, a department of Colombia
• Meta River, a river in Colombia

Europe

• Meta, Campania, a town in the province of Naples, Italy
• Monti della Meta, a massif in central Italy
• Meta River, a Ukrainian tributary of the Desna

Elsewhere

• Meta (district), a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid

Science and technology

• Meta- (chemistry), a positional nomenclature in aromatic ring substitution
• Meta (spider), a long-jawed orb-weaver genus
• 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 (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns
• Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon
• Middle East Theatre Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima series Red vs. Blue

See also

In Spanish: Meta para niños

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• All pages with titles beginning with Meta
• All pages with titles containing Meta
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• Metagaming (disambiguation)
• Metanoia (theology)
• Metastasis, in medicine