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Definitions for meta
ˈmɛt əmeta
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Wiktionary
metaadjective
Self-referential; at a higher level
Wikipedia
Meta
Meta (from the Greek μετά, meta, meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning "more comprehensive" or "transcending."
Wikidata
Meta
Meta, is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.
The New Hacker's Dictionary
meta
[from analytic philosophy] One level of description up. A metasyntactic variable is a variable in notation used to describe syntax, and meta-language is language used to describe language. This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humor turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels. See hacker humor.
Editors Contribution
metanoun
0.) Used as a virtual speaker to refer to himself or herself as the object of a verb or preposition typing in motion. 1.) Referring to itself or to the conventions of its genre; self- referential. 2.) Being in the sense of "Beyond" a child's word.
The meta of time is dictatorship versus political views.
Etymology: Virtual reality
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on October 20, 2023
Metanoun
28 Oct 2021 — Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand.
Submitted by Soulwriter on December 27, 2021
Suggested Resources
META
What does META stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the META acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
META
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Meta is ranked #62903 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Meta surname appeared 318 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Meta.
79.8% or 254 total occurrences were White.
9.1% or 29 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
5.6% or 18 total occurrences were Black.
3.4% or 11 total occurrences were Asian.
1.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of meta in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of meta in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of meta in a Sentence
The cyber hygienically apathetic c-suites running critical infrastructure organization are losing this war. This this is a cyber kinetic meta war and its hyper evolving in an already next gen space.
There's a technical question, which is, could you comply if you wanted to, and then the bigger meta question is why would you want to cooperate with this politicized drive to suppress freedom of expression.
Salmon contains omega-3 fats which have been shown to significantly reduce the risk for sudden death caused by cardiac arrhythmias and all-cause mortality in patients with known coronary heart disease, these essential fats help by reducing inflammation in the body. If you don't like salmon, you may get the same benefits from a supplement based on a meta analysis that found fish oil omega‐3 supplements lowered risk for heart attack and death from coronary heart disease.
[ Trump ] is a newsworthy and historical figure that has not been convicted of any crime, and if Meta is dedicated to the same kind of free speech values that Twitter is, then they would likely let Donald Trump back on, the big question is about network incitement … there’s no other technology in which a politician or political operative could incite such fervor as openly as they were able to do for January 6, and the technology has n’t changed in any significant way that would prevent something like this from happening again.
Meta was able to point to new programs they were developing, tikTok was able to point to specific, new APIs they’re developing. Twitter simply had blanks. There was nothing they could say, and in fact what they did say was, ‘We’re already better than everyone else,’ which was true until a week ago.
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Translations for meta
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- ميتاArabic
- metaCzech
- metaDanish
- MetaGerman
- metaGreek
- metaSpanish
- métaFrench
- मेटाHindi
- metaHungarian
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- מטאHebrew
- メタJapanese
- ಮೆಟಾKannada
- 메타Korean
- metaLatin
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- metaPolish
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- метаRussian
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- மெட்டாTamil
- మెటాTelugu
- เมต้าThai
- meta metaTurkish
- метаUkrainian
- metaVietnamese
- metaYiddish
- 元Chinese
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