(n) machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; --Ted Nelson, Example: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
(n) a database management system that allows strings of text (`objects') to be processed as a complex network of nodes that are linked together in an arbitrary way