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abbreviation Computers.
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.
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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
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Scientific 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.
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Cultural 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
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