Metadata

Metadata: (noun)

Data that serves to provide context or additional information about other data. For example, information about the title, subject, author, typeface, enhancements, and size of the data file of a document constitute metadata about that document.

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Sentence: The picture that I uploaded to the visual library contains metadata that provides the date and time when I posted it.

Metadata example
Metadata example

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