HYPERTEXT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected

Example:

Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hypertext" is a kind of...):

machine-readable text (electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats)

Holonyms ("hypertext" is a part of...):

object-oriented database (a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition)

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