A specific location on a web page that is used to link to that portion of the web page.

tag: The named anchor element tag is an anchor tag used to turn a word or phrase within a document into a hyperLink's destination-point; it has the form A NAME= anchorName label or A NAME=" anchor name" label where any anchor name of more than one word MUST be contained between straight quotation-marks "". For named anchor tag templates, go to HTML-Tags.html#named anchor tags and View Document Source code. See | Links

n. In HTML, a tag within a document that can act as a destination for a hyperlink. Named anchors are useful because they allow a link to a specific location within a document. Also called named target. See also anchor (definition 2), HTML, hyperlink.