Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɛt.əˌdeɪ.tə/
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.
- (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.
- French: métadonnées
- German: Metadaten
- Portuguese: metadados, metadata
- Russian: метада́нные
- Spanish: metadatos
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