metadata

About 1.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun 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.

Similar words

cataloguer meta superiority msds meta-data descriptors annotations tags schema taxonomy

Often followed by

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