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The META tag contaings so-callled meta-information about your HTML document. Meta means information about information, and that is what the META tag does.
The META tag lets you tell the user/user-agent who the author of the document is, what the description of the document is, what keywords are in the document etc.
For more information, check out the IRT article Resource Description Format, and the HTML 4.0 Specification.