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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   META
      <language> The assembly language for the CYBER 200,
      developed at CDC ca 1977.
      [CDC Pub 60256020].
      [Jargon File]
      (1994-11-16)
   
                   
                 

2.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   meta
      <philosophy> /me't*/ or /may't*/ or (Commonwealth) /mee't*/ A
      prefix meaning one level of description higher.  If X is some
      concept then meta-X is data about, or processes operating on,
      X.
      For example, a metasyntax is syntax for specifying syntax,
      metalanguage is a language used to discuss language,
      metadata is data about data, and meta-reasoning is
      reasoning about reasoning.
      This is difficult to explain briefly, but much hacker humour
      turns on deliberate confusion between meta-levels.
      [Jargon File]
      (1999-04-06)