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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

metadatum en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ) Ancient Greek μετᾰ- (metă-)lbor. English meta- English datum English metadatum From meta- + datum.

Meanings

  1. One piece of metadata; a piece of information describing a piece of data.
    • The timezone metadatum of the date field can be used to guess the location of the user.

Forms

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metadata Number=Plur lexicographic