# Meta

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**Meta** most commonly refers to:

- [Meta (prefix)](/source/Meta_(prefix)), a common affix and word in English (lit. 'beyond' in Greek)
- [Meta Platforms](/source/Meta_Platforms), an American multinational technology conglomerate (formerly *Facebook, Inc.*)

**Meta** or **META** may also refer to:

## Businesses

- [Meta (academic company)](/source/Meta_(academic_company)), performing analysis of scientific literature (2009–2022)
- [Meta (augmented reality company)](/source/Meta_(augmented_reality_company)), a maker of digital eyewear (2013–2019)
- [Meta Linhas Aéreas](/source/Meta_Linhas_A%C3%A9reas), a Brazilian airline (1991–2011; formerly *META*)
- [MetaBank](/source/MetaBank), an American bank (founded 1954; now *Pathward*)

## Computing

- [Meta element](/source/Meta_element) (<meta … >), an (X)HTML tag giving a webpage's metadata
- [Metadata](/source/Metadata), data about data
- [META II](/source/META_II), a compiler-writing language
- [Meta key](/source/Meta_key), a modifier key on 1970s, 1980s workstations
- [FF Meta](/source/FF_Meta), a typeface
- [Metasequoia (software)](/source/Metasequoia_(software)), a 3D graphics package
- [Metaverse](/source/Metaverse), social 3D virtual worlds
- [Imagination META](/source/Imagination_META), a microprocessor
- [Meta-Wiki](/source/Meta-Wiki), a co-ordinating Wikimedia wiki

## Entertainment

- [Metagame](/source/Metagame), or meta, an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules
- [*Meta* (Assemblage 23 album)](/source/Meta_(Assemblage_23_album)), 2007
- [*Meta* (Car Bomb album)](/source/Meta_(Car_Bomb_album)), 2016
- *Meta*, a 2016 album by [Thy Catafalque](/source/Thy_Catafalque)
- Meta, a pole marking racetrack turns in a [Roman circus](/source/Roman_circus#Meta)

## People

- [Meta (name)](/source/Meta_(name)), list of people with the given name or surname
- Pseudonym of contemporary artist [Margaret Kilgallen](/source/Margaret_Kilgallen) (1967–2001)

## Places

### Colombia

- [Meta Department](/source/Meta_Department)
- [Meta River](/source/Meta_River), an Orinoco tributary

### Italy

- [Meta, Campania](/source/Meta,_Campania), in Naples province
- [Monti della Meta](/source/Monti_della_Meta), an Apennine massif - [Monte Meta](/source/Monte_Meta) (or *La Meta*), its main peak

### United States

- [Meta, Kentucky](/source/Meta,_Kentucky), an unincorporated community
- [Meta, Missouri](/source/Meta,_Missouri), a city

### Elsewhere

- [Meta (district)](/source/Meta_(district)), Oromia, Ethiopia
- [1050 Meta](/source/1050_Meta), a stony main-belt asteroid
- Meta River, a tributary of the [Desna](/source/Desna_(river)) in Ukraine

## Science and technology

- [Meta (chemistry)](/source/Meta_(chemistry)), a nomenclature prefix for substituents or dehydration
- [*Meta* (spider)](/source/Meta_(spider)), a long-jawed orb-weaver genus
- [1050 Meta](/source/1050_Meta), a stony main-belt asteroid
- [Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay](/source/Megachannel_ExtraTerrestrial_Assay), a predecessor to the SETI project
- [META fuel](/source/META_fuel), a solid fuel

## Other uses

- [Meta (mythology)](/source/Meta_(mythology)), first wife of Aegeus, mythical king of Athens
- [Metaʼ language](/source/Meta%CA%BC_language), spoken in Cameroon
- [Middle East Theatre Academy](/source/Middle_East_Theatre_Academy), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

## See also

- [Mata (disambiguation)](/source/Mata_(disambiguation))
- [Metta (disambiguation)](/source/Metta_(disambiguation))
- [Metalanguage (disambiguation)](/source/Metalanguage_(disambiguation))
- [Hyper (disambiguation)](/source/Hyper_(disambiguation))
- [Super (disambiguation)](/source/Super_(disambiguation))
- [Metanoia (theology)](/source/Metanoia_(theology))
- [Metastasis](/source/Metastasis), in medicine

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