hyperlinkage

From hyper- + linkage.

hyperlinkage (countable and uncountable, plural hyperlinkages)

1. Overarching or large-scale linkage.
   • 2005, Christine Hine, Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet:

     ...the total volume of link connectivity from a country to other countries or a specific aspect of international hyperlinkage such as linguistic patterns.

   • 2004, Bruce B Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears:

     Sassia Sasken, another prominent social theorist, defines globalization as above all the hyperlinkage of global cities through international nodes...

2. (rare, Internet) The use of hyperlinks.
   • 1997, Charles K Nicholas, James Mayfield, Intelligent Hypertext:

     The process of concept generation results in a conceptual representation for Web hyperlinkage.

   • 1999, Steve Jones, Doing Internet Research:

     ...a printed version of the WWW... would not only be extremely voluminous, but it would also be completely purposeless without its hyperlinkage.

   • 2003, Stephen D Reese, Oscar H Gandy, August E Grant, Framing Public Life:

     ...while the use of green, underlined copy (within a larger mass of black text) suggests the notion of hyperlinkage.