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hy·per·text  (hpr-tkst)
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.

hypertext [ˈhaɪpəˌtɛkst]
n
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) computer software and hardware that allows users to create, store, and view text and move between related items easily and in a nonsequential way; a word or phrase can be selected to link users to another part of the same document or to a different document

hypertext  (hpr-tkst)
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.
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Noun1.hypertext - 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
machine-readable text - electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats
object-oriented database - a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition
Translations
hypertext [ˈhaɪpəˌtekst] N (Comput) → hipertexto m
hypertext [ˈhaɪpərtɛkst]
nhypertexte m
modif
hypertext link → lien m hypertexte


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