SGML

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does SGML mean? 

• SGML (noun)
  The noun SGML has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted

  Familiarity information: SGML used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SGML (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

SGML; standard generalized markup language

Hypernyms ("SGML" is a kind of...):

markup language (a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)