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metatag
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met·a·tag  (mt-tg)
n.
An HTML tag that contains descriptive information about a webpage and does not appear when the webpage is displayed in a browser.

metatag  (mt-tg)
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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