Meaning of Meta | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clipping of metagame.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
2. Boundary marker.
3. Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, Inc. (until late 2021): an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company that is the parent organization of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other subsidiaries.
4. A city in Osage County, Missouri.
5. An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
   Internet, broadly, countable
6. Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
   historical
7. Meta, a biomedical research discovery tool.
   historical
8. Clipping of metaoidioplasty.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
9. Clipping of metamour.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
10. Clipping of metanalysis: metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue.
    abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.”

“The phrase, “tank meta”, is one that carries a lot of weight when it comes to MOBAs. These metas are generally characterized by tanky, unkillable behemoths dominating the meta and leaving any character that isn’t focused around raw DPS in the dust.”

“Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be.”

“I remember interviewing PewDiePie a few years ago, and he was sort of telling me about this time where it was like edgy videos were being really rewarded, so everyone was kind of chasing like edgy humor and edgy memes, and sort of trying to figure out where the edge was. And then YouTube changed the meta, and suddenly, it wasn't good to be edgy, you weren't going to make as much money or get as many views.”

“Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps.”

“Fans create their own stories and media representation through fan fiction. They challenge the feminism in the [Sarah J. Maas] books through discussions and metas.”

“It wasn’t until I dug into post-season-3 Sherlock meta in January of 2014 that I started to encounter "the Discourse."”

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