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HTML

American  

abbreviation

Computers.

  1. 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.

HTML British  

abbreviation

  1. hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the Internet

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HTML Scientific  
/ āch′tē-ĕm-ĕl′ /

  1. 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.

HTML Cultural  

  1. An abbreviation for H yper t ext M arkup L anguage. This is the basic format for language that is used to construct the World Wide Web.

Etymology

Origin of HTML

Coined in 1991 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee

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