metadata

From meta- + data.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/, [ˈmɛɾ.əˌdeɪ.ɾə]

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.tə/, [ˈmet.əˌdæɪ.ɾə]

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.

   • 2013 December 16, Bill Mears, Evan Perez, “Judge: NSA domestic phone data-mining unconstitutional”, in CNN‎^[1], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 9 February 2018:

     Leon also noted that the government “does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature.”

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.

   • 2017 January 24, Paul Cruickshank, “Discarded laptop yields revelations on network behind Brussels, Paris attacks”, in CNN‎^[2], Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros. Discovery, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:

     Undaunted, the digital investigators used forensic software tools to unlock as much information as they could from the laptop. This allowed them to retrieve the names of deleted files, the time they were most recently opened and time they were burned onto the hard drive, providing critical metadata on the cell's attack plotting.

• metainformation

• tag

Borrowed from English metadata. Equivalent to meta- +‎ data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.taːˌdaː.taː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧da‧ta

metadata pl (plural only, no diminutive)

1. metadata

   Synonym: metagegevens

From English metadata. Equivalent to meta- +‎ data.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmetɑˌdɑtɑ/, [ˈme̞t̪ɑ̝ˌdɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): me‧ta‧da‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): meta‧data

metadata

1. metadata

• metatieto

Borrowed from English metadata.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /mətaˈdata/ [mə.t̪aˈda.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: me‧ta‧da‧ta

metadata (plural metadata-metadata)

1. (information science) metadata

• “metadata”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

metadata f (uncountable)

1. metadata (data that describes other data)

   Synonym: metadados

metadata c

1. metadata; data about data, information about information

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

• metadatahantering
• metadataschema
• metadatastruktur