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Linkage vs Hyperlinkage - What's the difference?

linkage | hyperlinkage |

As nouns the difference between linkage and hyperlinkage

is that linkage is a mechanical device that connects things while hyperlinkage is overarching or large-scale linkage.

linkage

English

Noun

(en noun) (Genetic linkage)
  • A mechanical device that connects things.
  • :A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
  • A connection or relation between things or ideas.
  • (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
  • (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.

    • Synonyms

    *(mechanical device that connects things ): *(connection or relation between things or ideas ): association, bond, connection, link, relationship *(in genetics ): *(in linguistics ):

    Derived terms

    * linkage map

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    hyperlinkage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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...
  • (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 .