Meta (disambiguation)

For the umbrella Wikimedia project which co-ordinates all other Wikimedia wiki projects,
known as the meta-wiki, see Wikipedia: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 (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)