| Noun | 1. | 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 |