metadata
UK/ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə//ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
metadata noun: data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
Noun
metadata (uncountable)
- Data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
- Most websites contain metadata to tell the computer how to lay out the content on the screen.
- Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
- That photo's metadata suggests it was edited using Photoshop.
metadata meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Indonesian and Persian
metadata in Tamil
- மேனிலை தரவு, மேல்நிலை தரவு, மேலமைத் தரவு, தகவல்களின் தகவல்
metadata in Arabic
- data that describes data
- بَيَانَات وَصْفِيَّة bayānāt waṣfiyya
metadata in Indonesian
- data that describes data
- metadata
metadata in Persian
- data that describes data
- فراداده farâdâde
More languagesFewer languages
- metadata in Vietnamese
- siêu dữ liệu
Examples of metadata in a sentence
- That metadata makes it much easier for the search engine to crunch the data for queries.
- I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.
- On Slack, the employees of Strategic Programming chattered about metadata tagging issues.
Origin of metadata
From meta- + data.
Questions about metadata
- What does metadata mean?
- Metadata means data that describes other data, serving as an informative label.
- What is metadata in Tamil?
- Metadata in Tamil is மேனிலை தரவு, மேல்நிலை தரவு, மேலமைத் தரவு. See Metadata meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is metadata?
- Metadata is a noun.
- How do you pronounce metadata?
- Metadata is pronounced /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/ (UK).
Words near metadata in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: metadata (page history and authors); metadata (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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