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Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:48 am
In computer science, a common prefix that means “about”. So, for example, metadata is data that describes other data (data about data). A metalanguage is a language used to describe other languages. A metafile is a file that contains other files. The HTML META tag is used to describe the contents of a Web page.