MARKUP LANGUAGE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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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