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), a 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, United Arab Emirates
- The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima series Red vs. Blue
See also
- Metagaming (disambiguation)
- Metanoia (theology)