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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
hy·per·text       [hahy-per-tekst] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.

[Origin: 1970–75]
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
hy·per·text       (hī'pər-těkst')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A computer-based text retrieval system that enables a user to access particular locations in webpages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific webpages or documents.

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hypertext

noun
machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; "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 

The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
hypertext       (hī'pər-těkst')  Pronunciation Key 
A computer-based text retrieval system that enables a user to access particular locations or files in webpages or other electronic documents by clicking on links within specific webpages or documents.

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
hypertext

The entire chain of hyperlinks that connects a series of related Web pages.


Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This

hypertext hypertext
A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents (or "nodes") containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another.
The extension of hypertext to include other media - sound, graphics, and video - has been termed "hypermedia", but is usually just called "hypertext", especially since the advent of the World-Wide Web and HTML.
(2000-09-10)

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