semantic Web
or se·man·tic web or Se·man·tic Web
[ si-man-tik web ]
/ sɪˈmæn tɪk ˈwɛb /
noun Digital Technology.
an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
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Origin of semantic Web
First recorded in 1995–2000; 1960–65 for earlier sense “network of meanings”
Words nearby semantic Web
semantic differential, semantic field, semantic memory, semantics, semantic tableau, semantic Web, semaphore, Semarang, semasiology, sematic, sematology
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British Dictionary definitions for semantic Web
semantic Web
noun
a proposed development of the World Wide Web in which computers can interpret and act on natural language
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