Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense hyperlinks, present participle hyperlinking, past tense, past participle hyperlinked
1. countable noun
In an HTML document, a hyperlink is a link to another part of the document or to another document. Hyperlinks areshown as words with a line under them.
[computing]
2. verb [usually passive]
If a document or file is hyperlinked, it contains hyperlinks.
[computing]
The database is fully hyperlinked. [beVERB-ed]
hyperlink in British English
(ˈhaɪpəˌlɪŋk)
noun
1.
a word, phrase, picture, icon, etc, in a computer document on which a user may click to move to another part of the document or to another document
verb
2. (transitive)
to link (files) in this way
Often shortened to: link
hyperlink in American English
(ˈhaɪpərˌlɪŋk; for v., also ˌ haɪpərˈlɪŋk)
Computing
noun
1.
a hypertext link that allows ready access to a related document, graphical image, etc.
verb transitive
2.
to join by a hyperlink
3.
to install hyperlinks in
In other languages
hyperlink
British English: hyperlink NOUN
In an HTML document, a hyperlink is a link to another part of the document or to another document.
...Web pages full of hyperlinks.
American English: hyperlink
Brazilian Portuguese: hiperlink
Chinese: 超文本链接
European Spanish: hipervínculo
French: hyperlien
German: Hyperlink
Italian: collegamento ipertestuale
Japanese: ハイパーリンク
Korean: 하이퍼링크
European Portuguese: hiperligação
Latin American Spanish: hipervínculo
British English: hyperlink VERB
If a document or file is hyperlinked, it contains hyperlinks.
The database is fully hyperlinked both within the database and to thousands of external links.