Meanings
- uncountablecomputingThe 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.
From the '70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past.
1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 超媒體 /超媒体
- 超媒體 /超媒体 (chāoméitǐ)use of text, data, graphics, audio and video
Finnish hypermedia
- hypermediause of text, data, graphics, audio and video
French hypermédia
- hypermédiause of text, data, graphics, audio and video
German Hypermedia
- Hypermediause of text, data, graphics, audio and video
Greek υπερμέσα
- υπερμέσα (ypermésa)use of text, data, graphics, audio and video
Turkish hipermedya, hiper ortam
- hipermedyause of text, data, graphics, audio and video
- hiper ortamuse of text, data, graphics, audio and video
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with hypermedia
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hypermedia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypermedia
“hypermedia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypermedia. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypermedia,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypermedia.
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