MARKUP LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does markup language mean? 

• MARKUP LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun MARKUP LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document

  Familiarity information: MARKUP LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKUP LANGUAGE (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)

 Context examples 

A general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages.

(Extensible Markup Language, NCI Thesaurus)