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metatag

American  
[me-tuh-tag] / ˈmɛ tə tæg /

noun

plural

metatags

  1. an HTML tag containing descriptive information about a webpage and not appearing as part of the displayed content on the webpage.

metatag Scientific  
/ mĕt′ə-tăg′ /

  1. An HTML tag that contains descriptive information about a webpage and does not appear when the webpage is displayed in a browser. A word that is in a metatag of a webpage will cause that webpage to turn up as a result of a search engine's search on that word, even if that word is not found in the webpage as viewed in a browser.

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