markup language

noun

, Digital Technology.

1. a set of standards for tagging data in an electronic document to indicate its structure or format: the most common markup language is HTML, used on most websites to format and display web pages.

markup language

/ märk′ŭp′ /

1. A coding system, such as HTML and SGML, used to structure, index, and link computer files.

Word History and Origins

Origin of markup language¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Cost: Free Learning tools: There’s a guide that covers the basics of their markup language and offers some samples of more advanced scripting.

From The Verge

I also like that MarsEdit is able to filter for markup languages such as Markdown and Multimarkdown, in addition to HTML, and have that content appear correctly on a service’s website.

From Seattle Times

There are a lot of audio programming languages out there, and at the moment, Alda is basically a markup language — replacing traditional notation with characters, symbols, and letters, rather than implementing full-bodied code.

From The Verge

Then that group would need to write a document that contained every aspect of the evolution of hypertext markup language.

From The New Yorker

Editing Wikipedia at the moment requires people to learn wikimarkup, a markup language, even to make tiny corrections to an article.

From The Guardian