transclusion
transclusion noun: the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.
Noun
transclusion (countable and uncountable, plural transclusions)
- The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.
- Transclusion means that a thing can be in two places at once.1990 September, Ted Nelson, “On the Xanadu Project”, in Byte, volume 15, number 9, →ISSN, page 298
- The MediaWiki parser processes an article in two stages. The first stage is called preprocessing and is mainly involved with the transclusion of templates and the expansion of the Wikitext.2011, Hannes Dohrn, Dirk Riehle, “Design and implementation of the Sweble Wikitext parser: unlocking the structured data of Wikipedia”, in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and...
- Synonyms:
- interpolation
transclusion meaning in Malay, Persian and Vietnamese
transclusion in Malay
- the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying
- transklusi
transclusion in Persian
- the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying
- تراگنجانش
transclusion in Vietnamese
- the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying
- sự nhúng chéo, sự chuyển tải
Synonyms of transclusion
Forms of transclusion
| plural | transclusions |
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Origin of transclusion
Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in his book Literary Machines (1981), by replacing the in- (“into, inwards”) suffix of inclusion with trans- (“through, over, across”).
Questions about transclusion
- What does transclusion mean?
- Transclusion means the inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.
- What is transclusion in Malay?
- Transclusion in Malay is transklusi. See Transclusion meaning in Malay.
- What part of speech is transclusion?
- Transclusion is a noun.
- What is the plural of transclusion?
- The plural of transclusion is transclusions.
Words near transclusion in the dictionary
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