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hyperlinkage en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English linkage English hyperlinkage From hyper- + linkage.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Overarching or large-scale linkage.
   • ...the total volume of link connectivity from a country to other countries or a specific aspect of international hyperlinkage such as linguistic patterns. 2005, Christine Hine, Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet:
   • Sassia Sasken, another prominent social theorist, defines globalization as above all the hyperlinkage of global cities through international nodes... 2004, Bruce B Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears:
2. (Internet, countable, rare, uncountable) The use of hyperlinks.
   • ...while the use of green, underlined copy (within a larger mass of black text) suggests the notion of hyperlinkage. 2003, Stephen D Reese, Oscar H Gandy, August E Grant, Framing Public Life:
   • ...a printed version of the WWW... would not only be extremely voluminous, but it would also be completely purposeless without its hyperlinkage. 1999, Steve Jones, Doing Internet Research:
   • The process of concept generation results in a conceptual representation for Web hyperlinkage. 1997, Charles K Nicholas, James Mayfield, Intelligent Hypertext:

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