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transclusion

noun

Etymology

Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in his book Literary Machines (1981). Probably from trans- + (in)clusion.

  1. derived from *(s)kleh₂w-✻
  2. derived from inclūdō
  3. borrowed from inclusio
  4. formed as transclusion — “trans- + inclusion”

Definitions

  1. The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference…

    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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for transclusion. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA