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Meta vs Metadata - What's the difference?

meta | metadata |

As an adjective meta

is meta.

As a noun metadata is

data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.

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

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    metadata

    English

    (wikipedia metadata)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
    • Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay the words out on the screen.

    Related terms

    * metainformation

    See also

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