Definition of "ML"

ML

proper noun
1. (computing) Initialism of Markup Language.
2. (computer languages) Initialism of MetaLanguage (the ML programming language)
  Quotations
  The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming. In the first of these a program may be written without typing at all. Then a compiler should check whether a type can be assigned to the program. This will be the case if the program is correct. A well-known example of such a language is ML, see Milner (1984). The style of typing is called 'implicit typing'. The other paradigm in programming is called 'explicit typing' and corresponds to the Church version of typed lambda calculi. Here a program should be written together with its type. For these languages type-checking is usually easier, since no types have to be constructed. Examples of such languages are ALGOL 68 and PASCAL. Some authors designate the Curry systems as 'lambda calculi with type assignment and the Church systems as 'systems of typed lambda calculus'.
  '1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl‎, retrieved 2012-07-15
3. (linguistics) Initialism of Medieval Latin.
4. (linguistics) Initialism of Middle Latin.
5. (Marxism) Initialism of Marxism-Leninism.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural MLs
1. (countable, surface chemistry) Initialism of monolayer.
2. (uncountable, computing) Initialism of machine learning.
3. (countable, computing) Initialism of mailing list.
4. (uncountable, sciences) Initialism of maximum likelihood.
5. (countable, military) Initialism of muzzleloader.
6. (countable, Marxism) Initialism of Marxist-Leninist.