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metadatum

noun

  1. data about data
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Wiktionary

noun

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

  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.