Etymology

transclusion

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Today it means: The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying. Full definition →

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Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in his book Literary Machines (1981), by replacing the in- (“into, inwards”) suffix of inclusion with trans- (“through, over, across”).

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