semantic web

proper noun

A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.

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Meanings

semantic web1

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Semantic Web.

Semantic Web2

proper noun

alternative semantic Web · alternative semantic web

  1. InternetA proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.

    Twine is based on technologies created for the developing semantic Web - foreseen as a smarter Web where machines may someday be able to process the meaning of words and phrases in documents and even routinely answer direct questions.

    2008 February 1, Anne Eisenberg, “Twine ties things together on Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

semantic Web3

proper noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Semantic Web.
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APA

semantic web. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semantic%20web

MLA

“semantic web.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semantic%20web. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “semantic web,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semantic%20web.

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