metadata

noun/ˈmɛtəˌdeɪtə/

Frequency rank: #8,974 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Data that provides information about other data, such as file size, creation date, or author.

Illustration for the English word “metadata”

Example sentence

The photographer checked the metadata of each image to find out when and where it was taken.

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