Meta vs. Alphabet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Meta and Alphabet
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Definitions
Meta➦
Meta (from the Greek μετα-, meta-, meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix meaning more comprehensive or transcending.
Alphabet➦
An alphabet is a standardized set of basic written symbols or graphemes (called letters) that represent the phonemes of certain spoken languages. Not all writing systems represent language in this way; in a syllabary, each character represents a syllable, for instance, and logographic systems use characters to represent words, morphemes, or other semantic units.The first fully phonemic script, the Proto-Canaanite script, later known as the Phoenician alphabet, is considered to be the first alphabet, and is the ancestor of most modern alphabets, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and possibly Brahmic.
Meta➦
Making or showing awareness of reference to oneself or to the activity that is taking place, especially in an ironic or comic way.
Alphabet➦
The letters of a language, arranged in the order fixed by custom.
Meta➦
(informal) Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level.
Suppose you have a genie that grants you three wishes. If you wish for infinite wishes, that is a meta wish.
Alphabet➦
A system of characters or symbols representing sounds or things.
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Meta➦
(video games) Prominent in the metagame; effective and frequently used in competitive gameplay.
I don't think the character will be meta even with the recent buffs.
Alphabet➦
A set of basic parts or elements
"genetic markers ... that contain repeated sequences of the DNA alphabet"(Sandra Blakeslee).
Meta➦
Boundary marker.
Alphabet➦
The set of letters used when writing in a language.
The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
Meta➦
(historical) Either of the conical columns at each end of an Ancient Roman circus.
Alphabet➦
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.
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Meta➦
(video games) Metagame; the most effective tactics and strategies used in a competitive video game in a given period of time.
I don't think the character will be part of the meta even with the recent buffs.
Alphabet➦
A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. Contrast e.g. abjad.
Meta➦
An informal but widely adopted practice in a given field; a de facto standard.
Each video sharing platform's community has a meta on how long videos should be.
Alphabet➦
(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
Let be a regular language over the alphabet .
Meta➦
(informal) Metoidioplasty.
Alphabet➦
An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
Alphabet➦
The simplest rudiments; elements.
Alphabet➦
An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
Alphabet➦
(rare) To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Alphabet➦
The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
Alphabet➦
The simplest rudiments; elements.
The very alphabet of our law.
Alphabet➦
To designate by the letters of the alphabet; to arrange alphabetically.
Alphabet➦
A character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
Alphabet➦
The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural);
He mastered only the rudiments of geometry