NOUN | communication | hypertext | machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected |
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Sounds | hhay'perteh.kst | |
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Rhymes | context ... vexed: 8 rhymes with ehkst... |
Meaning | machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected. | |
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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"--Ted Nelson | |
Part of | object-oriented database | A database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
Broader | machine-readable text | electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats |
Spanish | hipertexto | |
Catalan | hipertext |
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