hy·per·text (h  p r-t kst )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]
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(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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| 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 |
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