markup language


nounDigital Technology.
  1. a set of standards for tagging data in an electronic document to indicate its structure or format: the most common markup language is HTML, used on most websites to format and display web pages.

Origin of markup language

1
First recorded in 1980–85

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Scientific definitions for markup language

markup language

[ märkŭp′ ]


  1. A coding system, such as HTML and SGML, used to structure, index, and link computer files.

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