metadata

See also: meta data

English

Etymology

meta- +‎ data

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
  • Audio (US)(file)

Noun

metadata (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. (computing) 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.

Translations

See also

Portuguese

Noun

metadata f (uncountable)

  1. metadata (data that describes other data)

Synonyms

Swedish

Noun

metadata c

  1. metadata; data about data, information about information

Usage notes

  • Rarely inflected. Both common gender (metadatan) and neuter (metadatat) have been used. See data.
  • metadatahantering
  • metadataschema
  • metadatastruktur
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