| Noun | 1. | object-oriented database - a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition 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 computer database, electronic database, electronic information service, on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers |