Meta (disambiguation)

Meta is a common Greek prefix meaning "beyond" which often carries a sense of self-reference.

Meta may refer to:

Places

• Meta Department, a department of Colombia
• Meta River, a river of Colombia
• Meta River, a river of Ukraine, a tributary of Desna River
• Meta (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
• Meta, Kentucky, Pike County, Kentucky, United States, a town
• Meta, Missouri, United States, a town
• Meta, Campania, a town in the province of Naples, Italy
• Monti della Meta, a massif in central Italy
• 1050 Meta, an asteroid

People

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

Science and technology

• Meta- (chemistry), a positional nomenclature in aromatic ring substitution
• Meta (spider), a genus of spiders of the family Tetragnathidae
• Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay, a predecessor to the SETI project
• Meta (company), a company known for making Augmented reality products
• META fuel, a solid fuel from Lonza Group, used in tablet form as camping fuel (also for military purposes)
• Meta (scientific knowledge network) A company performing big data analysis of scientific literature

Computing

• Meta element (<meta … >), an HTML/XHTML element used to provide structured metadata about a webpage
• META II, a compiler writing language
• Meta key, a special key on some computer keyboards
• FF Meta, a typeface

Music

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

Other uses

• Meta (mythology), first wife of Aegeus in Greek mythology
• Meta (Roman circus), pole marking a turning point of the racetrack in a Roman circus
• Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon
• Meta Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline
• Middle East Theatre Academy, a theatre academy based in Sharjah, UAE
• Most Effective Tactics Available (computer games)
• § Maine/The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima series Red vs. Blue

See also

• Metagaming (disambiguation)