Metadata

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  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

 * Arabic: بَيَانَات وَصْفِيَّة
 * Bulgarian: метаданни
 * Catalan: metadades
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 元數據, 元数据
 * Dutch: metagegevens,
 * Esperanto: meta-dateno
 * Finnish: metadata, metatieto
 * French:
 * Galician: metadatos
 * Georgian: მეტა-მონაცემები, მეტამონაცემები


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: lýsigögn
 * Japanese: メタデータ
 * Korean: 메타데이터
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: metadados, metadata
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
Borrowed from. Equivalent to nl.

Noun

 * 1) metadata

Noun

 * 1)  data that describes other data

Noun

 * 1) metadata; data about data, information about information

Usage notes

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