transclusion

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Definition of transclusion in English English dictionary

The inclusion of part of hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying

The inclusion of the same material in a permascroll in two different documents One of the fundamentals of the Xanadu88 model is that it is efficient to search for transclusions of a given span

Synonyms

interpolation

Etymology

() Coined by Ted Nelson in his 1982 book Literary Machines. Probably a portmanteau of trans- and inclusion.