Sunday, January 1, 2017

meta...

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 (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)

In 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)

In 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

Other uses

  • In Greek mythology, the first wife of Aegeas
  • Meta (album), a 2007 Assemblage 23 album
  • Meta (Car Bomb album), a 2016 Car Bomb album
  • 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.

See also

Metagaming (disambiguation) 

See Meta : http://bit.ly/Meta_Wiki

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