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单词 meta-information
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meta-informationn.

Brit. /ˌmɛtəˌɪnfəˈmeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌɪnfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meta- prefix, information n.
Etymology: < meta- prefix + information n. (see quot. 1956).
Information about information, esp. information used to order or locate other information; (spec. on the internet) the mark-up information on a web page, etc. (see quot. 1995). Cf. metadata n. at meta- prefix 2c.
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1956 J. D. North in C. Cherry Information Theory xxxvi. 375 This information is of a special character, different from the information contained in the message, and might perhaps be called ‘meta-information’.
1982 Computerworld 14 June 29/4 Software that..can access and modify meta information.
1995 T. Berners-Lee & D. Connolly Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 1866 Meta-information has two main functions: to provide a means to discover that the data set exists and how it might be obtained or accessed; and to document the content, quality, and features of a data set.
1999 Network Computing (Nexis) 20 Sept. Scans can also check for meta information within each HTML page to improve cataloging.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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