hyperlinkage

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noun

Overarching or large-scale linkage.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounhyperlinkage (countable and uncountable, plural hyperlinkages)

plural hyperlinkages

  1. countableuncountableOverarching or large-scale linkage.

    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
    1 more example

    ...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
  2. InternetcountablerareuncountableThe use of hyperlinks.

    The process of concept generation results in a conceptual representation for Web hyperlinkage.

    1997, Charles K Nicholas, James Mayfield, Intelligent Hypertext
    2 more examples

    ...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

    ...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

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*hupér
  4. Ancient Greekῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
  5. Ancient Greekῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)
  6. Englishhyper-
  7. Englishlinkage
  8. Englishhyperlinkage

From hyper- + linkage.

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APA

hyperlinkage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperlinkage

MLA

“hyperlinkage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperlinkage. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyperlinkage,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyperlinkage.

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