HTML (?ch?t?-?m-?l?)n. A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web.[H(yper)t(ext) M(arkup) L(anguage).]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.HTML abbreviation for (Computer Science) hypertext markup language: a text description language that is used for electronic publishing, esp on the internet Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014HTML HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document, the standard for documents on the World Wide Web. [1990?95] Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.HTMLHypertext Markup Language; the format that all web pages are set up in.Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited