microformat

microformat

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English format
English microformat

    From micro- + format.

    Noun

    microformat (plural microformats)

    1. (computing) A simple data format that can be embedded in a webpage.
      • 2007, John Allsopp, Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0, Apress, →ISBN, page 95:
        This type of microformat is, according to microformats.org, “a minimal solution to a single problem, built from standard XHTML elements.” More complex microformats that are built from elemental microformats and often also other HTML […]

    Synonyms

    • μF (abbreviation, rare)

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