semantic Web
or se·man·tic web or Se·man·tic Web
[si-man-tik web]
noun
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
1995–2000; 1960–65 for earlier sense “network of meanings”
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semantic Web
noun
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