markup
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the amount added to the cost to determine the asking priceType of net income, net
- detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)Type of direction, instruction
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. Commerce The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.
2. printing Instructions for the typesetter that are written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics).
3. Legislation Changes in proposed legislation drafted in conference, as contrasted with changes resulting from the amendment process.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<text> In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text to indicate the logical components of a document, instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system.
For example, HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) adds tags to the text to indicate the appearance and behaviour it should have when displayed by a web browser. E.g.:
<b>This is bold text.</b>
<a href="http://foldoc.org/">This is a link to FOLDOC</a>.
Other examples of markup languages are troff, SGML (on which HTML was based) and XML.
(2012-12-14)