markup language

English

a generic example of markup language that illustrates the basic concept used by various ones

Noun

markup language (plural markup languages)

  1. (programming, web development) A computer language using markup that tells the computer some traits of the content that is described by the markup tags.
    Hypernyms: computer language < formal language < language
    Hyponyms: HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, XML, Extensible Markup Language, SGML, Standard Generalized Markup Language, markdown

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