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HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.Compare http.

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Examples from the Web for html

Contemporary Examples of html

Historical Examples of html

  • A linked contents was included for this html edition to aid the reader.

    Hurlbut's Bible Lessons

    Rev. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

  • These have been kept in the html version to align the page numbers.

    Scottish Ghost Stories

    Elliott O'Donnell

  • Some compromises had to be made in laying out this html version.

    All Round the Year

    Edith Nesbit

  • The first title page was placed before this list for this html edition.

    Peter Cooper

    Rossiter W. Raymond

  • The original appearance and wording is reproduced in the html version.

    Domesticated Animals

    Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

British Dictionary definitions for html

HTML

abbreviation for

hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the Internet
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for html

HTML

1992, standing for Hypertext Markup Language.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Science definitions for html

HTML

[āch′tē-ĕm-ĕl′]

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.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Culture definitions for html

HTML

An abbreviation for Hypertext Markup Language. This is the basic format for language that is used to construct the World Wide Web.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.