Meta

Meta most commonly refers to:
 * Meta (prefix), a common affix and word in English (lit. 'beyond' in Greek)
 * Meta Platforms, an American multinational technology conglomerate (formerly Facebook, Inc.)

Meta or META may also refer to:

Businesses

 * Meta (academic company), performing analysis of scientific literature (2009–2022)
 * Meta (augmented reality company), a maker of digital eyewear (2013–2019)
 * Meta Linhas Aéreas, a Brazilian airline (1991–2011; formerly META)
 * MetaBank, an American bank (founded 1954; now Pathward)

Computing

 * Meta element, an (X)HTML element providing a webpage's structured metadata
 * Metadata, data about data
 * META II, a compiler-writing language
 * Meta key, a modifier key on 1970s/80s workstation keyboards
 * FF Meta, a typeface
 * Metasequoia (software), a 3D computer graphics package
 * Metaverse, proposed networks of 3D virtual worlds for social connection
 * Imagination META, a microprocessor
 * Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia Foundation project

Entertainment

 * Meta (Assemblage 23 album), 2007
 * Meta (Car Bomb album), 2016
 * Meta (Roman circus), a pole marking racetrack turns
 * Metagame (clipped to meta), an approach to gaming outside prescribed rules
 * The Meta, an antagonist in the machinima series Red vs. Blue

People

 * Meta (name), list of people with the given name or surname
 * Pseudonym of contemporary artist Margaret Kilgallen (1967–2001)

Places

 * Meta (district), a woreda in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
 * Meta, Campania, a town in the province of Naples, Italy
 * Meta, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Meta, Missouri, United States, a city
 * 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
 * Meta Department, a department of Colombia
 * Meta River, a river in Colombia
 * Meta River, a Ukrainian tributary of the Desna
 * Monti della Meta, a massif in central Italy

Science and technology

 * Meta- (chemistry), a positional nomenclature in aromatic ring substitution
 * Meta (spider), a long-jawed orb-weaver genus
 * 1050 Meta, a stony main-belt asteroid
 * Megachannel ExtraTerrestrial Assay, a predecessor to the SETI project
 * META fuel, a solid fuel

Other uses

 * Meta (mythology), first wife of Aegeus, mythical king of Athens
 * Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon
 * Middle East Theatre Academy, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates