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Noun: hypertext  'hI-pur`tekst
  1. 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"

Derived forms: hypertexts

Type of: machine-readable text

Part of: object-oriented database

Encyclopedia: Hypertext

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