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Meta vs Info - What's the difference?

meta | info |

As nouns the difference between meta and info

is that meta is boundary marker while info is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} Short form of the word information.

As an adjective meta

is self-referential; at a higher level.

meta

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Self-referential; at a higher level
  • * {{quote-book, 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity citation
    • , passage=
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Brendan Vaughan, What Would MacGyver Do? citation
    • , passage=Besides, I can just hear Vaughan: "Very funny, Stacey, very Charlie Kaufman-esque, very meta , very '97. I can't use it." }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • boundary marker
  • Either of the conical columns at each end of a Roman circus

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    info

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Short form of the word information.

    • Derived terms

    * infoporn

    Anagrams

    * * * English clippings ----