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Machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
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hypertext
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Word definitions for hypertext in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN system ▪ From the experiences described in this paper requirements for a new hypertext system arose. ▪ We have described a scheme for introducing logical objects into one hypertext system , Guide. ▪ Document preparation ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hypertext , in semiotics , is a text which alludes, derives from, or relates to an earlier work or hypotext . For example, James Joyce 's Ulysses could be regarded as one of the many hypertexts deriving from Homer 's Odyssey ; Angela Carter 's "The Tiger's ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1969, from hyper- + text (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks. 2 (context countable English) A hypertext document.
Usage examples of hypertext.
You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any word processing or hypertext form.
The most radical new element that comes to the fore in hypertext is the system of multidirectional and often labyrinthine linkages we are invited or obliged to create.
With hypertext we focus, both as writers and as readers, on structure as much as on prose, for we are made aware suddenly of the shapes of narratives that are often hidden in print stories.
IN hypertext, multivocalism is popular, graphic elements, both drawn and scanned, have been incorporated into the narratives, imaginative font changes have been employed to identify various voices or plot elements, and there has also been a very effective use of formal documents not typically used in fictions -- statistical charts, song lyrics, newspaper articles, film scripts, doodles and photographs, baseball cards and box scores, dictionary entries, rock music album covers, astrological forecasts, board games and medical and police reports.
During one of my hypertext workshops, a certain reading tension was caused when we found that there was more than one bartender in our hotel: was this the same bar or not?
Really, he'd never even gotten much attention, except when he'd split with Maria Paz, and even then it had been the Padanian star who'd made the top of every sequence, with Cody Harwood smiling from a series of sidebars, embedded hypertext lozenges: the beauty and this gentle-looking, secretive, pointedly uncharismatic billionaire.
Hypertext reader and writer are said to become co-learners or co-writers, as it were, fellow-travelers in the mapping and remapping of textual (and visual, kinetic and aural) components, not all of which are provided by what used to be called the author.