semantic Web

or se·man·tic web or Se·man·tic Web

[ si-man-tik web ]

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. 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.

semantic Web

noun

1. a proposed development of the World Wide Web in which computers can interpret and act on natural language

Word History and Origins

Origin of semantic Web¹

First recorded in 1995–2000; 1960–65 for earlier sense “network of meanings”