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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: multimedia, multimedia system
History
From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
