Definition of "hypermedia" [hypermedia]

• A computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings, photographs, and computer graphics related to a particular subject. (noun)

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• "Or perphaps in hypermedia Times Square or in the TV showrooms of a Radio Shack."
• "Of course, most web pages include other media elements besides text, such as graphics, animation, and audio, so the Web is more accurately described as a hypermedia system."
• "Or in other words: Fielding's "hypermedia" in fact is not any different part of the system but solely the document."