hypertext Text prepared and published in such a way that it is linked together in a non-sequential web of associations that allows the user to navigate through related topics, from one document to another.The author embeds hyperlinks in the text that the user can simply click on to view the related document associated with the link. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global hypertext system of information residing on servers linked across the public Internet. If this dictionary were in electronic format with hypertext, 74570c08.qxd 9/11/07 12:22 PM Page 233 |