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MARKUP LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("markup language" is a kind of...):
language; nomenclature; terminology (a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "markup language"):
SGML; standard generalized markup language ((computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted)
HTML; hypertext mark-up language; hypertext markup language (a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents)
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