HYPERTEXT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypertext mean? 

• HYPERTEXT (noun)
  The noun HYPERTEXT has 1 sense:

1. machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected

  Familiarity information: HYPERTEXT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERTEXT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

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

Hypernyms ("hypertext" is a kind of...):

machine-readable text (electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats)

Holonyms ("hypertext" is a part of...):

object-oriented database (a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition)

 Context examples 

A reference (link) from some point in one hypertext document to another document, another place in the same document, or a website.

(Hyperlink, NCI Thesaurus)