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say it: HAHY-pur-tekst
hypertext is a noun meaning "machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected". It carries one recorded sense.
machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected
“Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hypertext come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.