What is the origin of the HTML tag name: "<TD>"

I know it's a little off-to开发者_运维技巧pic, but what is the origin of the tag name "TD" used in HTML table markup?

"TH" seems like it should stand for "Table Header" and "TR" for "Table Row", but what about "TD"?

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Looking at the HTML spec, it seems that it's an abbreviation for "table data cell", whereas th is an abbreviation of "table header cell".

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The meaning of <td> is "table data"

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TD = Table Data ... Intuitive, no?

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I always assumed it stood for "Table Data"