What does Meta mean?
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
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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.
Anagrams for Meta »
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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
Meta has a record of abject failure to protect children and teens, and yet again, this company has chosen to put young users at risk so that it can make more money.
There's two levels to analyze this on, the first is, Peter Thiel now has a lot more time to spend Peter Thiel money on electing Republicans in the fall ; what's that going to mean for election outcomes ? The other is, Peter Thiel, prominent Donald Trump backer, has decided that Peter Thiel priority, instead of being a board member at Meta, is keeping the GOP in the clutches of Donald Trump.
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.
Most Americans do believe that there is a link between screen violence and real world aggression, but they don’t think it affects them or their children - only others. In addition, the media itself often portrays the issue as being contentious, whereas in fact hundreds of studies and several large meta-analyses have shown that there is a definitive( albeit small to moderate) link between virtual violence and real world aggression. It is always possible to find a dissenting scientist( think climate change), but the truth is for the vast majority of researchers, this is settled science.
There have been a couple of meta-analyses done in adult samples, but this is the first one to be done specifically in adolescent and young adult samples, we looked at everything from learning and memory to different aspects of executive functioning such as abstraction ability.
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- ميتاArabic
- metaCzech
- metaDanish
- MetaGerman
- metaGreek
- metaSpanish
- métaFrench
- मेटाHindi
- metaHungarian
- metaIndonesian
- metaItalian
- מטאHebrew
- メタJapanese
- ಮೆಟಾKannada
- 메타Korean
- metaLatin
- metaDutch
- metaNorwegian
- metaPolish
- metaPortuguese
- метаRussian
- metaSwedish
- மெட்டாTamil
- మెటాTelugu
- เมต้าThai
- метаUkrainian
- metaVietnamese
- metaYiddish
- 元Chinese
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