hypermedia
noun
hypermedia is a noun meaning “The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-E-D-I-A, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypermedia mean?
noun
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The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypermedia?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hypermedia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is hypermedia?
Hypermedia appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 102,771st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypermedia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense use of text, data, graphics, audio and video:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypermédia |
| German | Hypermedia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypermedia come from?
From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).