Meta can refer to:

• A prefix (meaning about) derived from Greek, see Meta-
• Meta Department, a department of Colombia.
• Meta River , a river of Colombia
• Meta, Missouri; a town in Missouri
• Meta, Kentucky ; a town in Kentucky
• The first wife of Aegeas in Greek mythology, who bore him no heirs.
• The wikimedia meta-wiki.
• Meta a direction orthogonal to x,y and z. Meta is the axes formed by what Rucker and others often refer to as Ana and Kata.
• Data about or processes operating on in the Hypercomputing Dictionary.
• To 'go meta' is to step orthogonally to the situation in order to grok additional layers of information that are affecting the decision making process.