meta
Boundary marker.
Adjective
- Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
- Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
- Suppose you have a homework task where you need to edit a wiki page and upload a screenshot of this entry underneath the word meta as an example of what meta is.
- […] in finessing obligations you fail a "meta" kind of obligation. - 2002, Robert C. Neville, Religion in Late Modernity, →ISBN, page 31:
- Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.
- I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
Origin
Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 1 is a back-formation from meta- (prefix). Adjective etymology 1, adjective sense 2 is derived from noun etymology 1, noun sense 1. The noun senses are clippings of various terms beginning with meta (prefix). Folk etymology for noun etymology 1, noun sense 1 also suggests an acronym for most effective/efficient tactic available.
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Noun video games
- Clipping of metagame.
- 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...
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(by extension, countable, Internet slang) An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
- 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,...
- Clipping of metaoidioplasty.
- Clipping of metamour.
- Clipping of metanalysis: metanalysis or metacommentary focused on media, fandom, or related topics, typically presented as an essay or dialogue.
- Many metas on Tumblr incorporate GIFs of scenes they are referencing as well as screencaps. - 2014, Jay Schnorrer, "Adding to Narration and The Johnlock Conspiracy – The Meaning of Digital Media for BBC's Sherlock",...
- 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. - 2018, Sarah Leiser, "Throne of Fans: Examining the...
- It wasn’t until I dug into post-season-3 Sherlock meta in January of 2014 that I started to encounter "the Discourse." - 2020, Elizabeth Minkel, quoted in "Under the Radar: A Conversation about Tumblr in the Public...
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Noun Entry 3
- Boundary marker.
- Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
Origin
From Latin mēta.