Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.

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  • proper noun Initialism of Hypertext Markup Language.

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  • noun a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[H(yper)t(ext) M(arkup) L(anguage).]

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