A prefix meaning a later, more comprehensive, transcending, or more highly organized version of something. Used with the name of a discipline to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one.
Prefix that designates structures (except for the wings) of the last segment of the thorax, the metathorax.
A Greek prefix meaning hind or posterior; used with Latin, latinized, or Green words to indicate the posterior (usually third) part of a structure).
A prefix that modifies the subsequent PWB function.
a prefix meaning "information about".
A prefix used in computer science meaning "relating to" or "based on." For example, a metadirectory would be a directory relating to, or about directories. More simply put, a directory of directories.
From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" ( 1999-07-23) A prefix to indicate something applied to itself; for example, a metameeting is a meeting about meetings.
A prefix used to denote a higher level of thought about the subject, e.g. metascience (where we consider how we approach science), meta-ethics where we consider how we define normative behaviour. Each level in a complex system can be considered as a meta-viewpoint upon the previous level of emergence. Relates to category or type theory and higher-order logic.
A prefix attached to the name of any rock which has undergone metamorphism
In epistemology, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata is data about data (who has produced it, when, what format the data is in and so on). Similarly, meta-memory in psychology means an individual's intuition about whether or not they would remember something if they concentrated on recalling it. Any subject can be said to have a meta-theory, which is the theoretical consideration of its foundations and methods.
Meta (Greek: μετά = "after", "beyond"), is a common English prefix, used to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to analyze the latter. For example "metaphysics" refers to the book that came after Aristotle's work on nature Physics in the classical ordering (and, by extension, to the philosophical domain of this book), but "meta language" refers to a type of language or system which describes (i.e. is about) language.