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)
• Meta (musician), a dubstep artist signed to Lifted Music
• the Meta-Powers tag team of Curtis Axel and Damien Sandow, parody of The Mega Powers

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, 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
• The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima film series Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction
• Méta, a Hungarian ball game similar to baseball