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noun Digital Technology.
a set of standards, as HTML or SGML, used to create an appropriate markup scheme for an electronic document, as to indicate its structure or format.
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markup language
[ märk′ŭp′ ]
A coding system, such as HTML and SGML, used to structure, index, and link computer files.
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