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Mega vs Meta - What's the difference?

mega | meta |

In informal terms the difference between mega and meta

is that mega is very large while meta is self-referential; at a higher level.

As a noun meta is

boundary marker.

mega

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) Very large.
  • * 2004 , Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design (page 26)
    • Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
  • great; excellent
  • * 1998 , John Barwick, Targeting Text (page 25)
    • We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.

    Related terms

    * mega-

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    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

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