From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmeta-meta- /metə/ prefix 1 UNUSUALbeyond or at a higher level metaphysical  (=beyond ordinary physical things)2 relating to a change of state or position metabolism  (=the process of changing food into energy)Origin meta- Latin “change”, from Greek, “among, with, after, change”, from meta “among, with, after” 
                                                    
                                                
