hyperlink

Pluralhyperlinks

Formshyperlinks, hyperlinking, hyperlinked

1. 1
   web linknouncountable

   A link in an electronic document, such as highlighted text, an image or a web address, that opens another document or place when clicked.

   Each hyperlink in the article is underlined so readers can spot it easily.

   Tapping the hyperlink launched a video instead of opening a new page.

   UsageIn everyday use people usually just say link. You click or tap a hyperlink, or click on it.

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   add linkverbtransitive or intransitive

   To link a document, or part of one, to another document or place by means of a hyperlink, or to be linked in this way.

   Reference guides hyperlink to the original studies so readers can verify the data.

   This footnote hyperlinks to a fuller discussion of the topic.

   UsageThe destination follows to: a page hyperlinks to another site. Everyday English usually just says links to.

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   click throughverbintransitive

   To move directly to another document by clicking on or following a hyperlink.

   Users can hyperlink to any chapter without scrolling through the whole book.

   In the digital edition, you can hyperlink from any term in the index directly to the page where it is explained.

   UsageThe reader is the subject, with to or through: readers hyperlink to a chapter or through several pages.

   Similarjump, navigate, skip

   Note

   In 1999 John Graubert and Jill Coleman put it in quotation marks when writing of how many pages consumers "hyperlink" through. Compare the linking sense, where a document or its writer makes the link.

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