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meta British & World English

short for meta key.

meta- (also met- before a vowel or h) British & World English

denoting a change of position or condition

meta key British & World English

a key on some keyboards which activates a particular function when held down simultaneously with another key

Meta River British & World English

a river that flows northeast for 650 miles (1,050 km) from central Colombia into the Orinoco River and that forms part of the Colombia-Venezuela boundary

metadata British & World English

a set of data that describes and gives information about other data

metarule British & World English

a rule governing the content, form, or application of other rules

metafiction British & World English

fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques

metamessage British & World English

an underlying meaning or subtext

metacognition British & World English

awareness and understanding of one’s own thought processes

metalanguage British & World English

a form of language or set of terms used for the description or analysis of another language

metamaterial British & World English

a synthetic composite material with a structure such that it exhibits properties not usually found in natural materials, especially a negative refractive index

metamathematics British & World English

the field of study that deals with the structure and formal properties of mathematics and similar formal systems

meta Italian-English

destination

meta Spanish-English

finishing line

a metà serata in metà Italian-English

halfway through the evening

a metà settimana in settimana Italian-English

midweek, half-way through the week

fare [a] metà e metà in metà Italian-English

go fifty-fifty, go halves

fare a metà con qualcuno in metà Italian-English

go halves with somebody, go fifty-fifty with somebody