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hyperlinking

hyperlinking is the present participle and gerund of hyperlink.

Meaning of hyperlink

Verb

hyperlink (third-person singular simple present hyperlinks, present participle hyperlinking, simple past and past participle hyperlinked)

  1. To point to another document by a hyperlink.
    • Their Web page hyperlinks to your Web site.2001, Barbara Notarius, Gail Sforza Brewer, Open Your Own Bead & Breakfast, 4th edition, John Wiley and Sons, page 165
  2. To add a hyperlink to a document.
    • One valuable thing a blogger often does is hyperlink to magazine and newspaper stories or other interesting blogs, she says.2004 April 15, Gregory M. Lamb, “Blogs: Here to Stay - With Changes”, in Christian Science Monitor
  3. To use a hyperlink to jump to a document.
    • Indeed, what consumers will see on a Web site is likely to vary depending on the point or Web page at which they access the Web site, how many pages they “hyperlink” through when reviewing the site, and how much of the page containing the disclosure is displayed by consumers' Web browsers without...1999, John Graubert, Jill Coleman, “Consumer Protection and Antitrust Enforcement at the Speed of Light: The FTC Meets the Internet”, in Canada–United States Law Journal, volume 25, page 275

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Questions about hyperlinking

What is hyperlinking the present participle and gerund of?
Hyperlinking is the present participle and gerund of hyperlink.

Words near hyperlinking in the dictionary

  1. hyperlink cinema
  2. hyperlinkable
  3. hyperlinkage
  4. hyperlinkages
  5. hyperlinked
  6. hyperlinking
  7. hyperlinks
  8. hyperlipaemia
  9. hyperlipaemias
  10. hyperlipaemic
  11. hyperlipaemics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyperlinking (page history and authors); hyperlink (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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