hyperstructure

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ structure.

Noun

hyperstructure (plural hyperstructures)

(mathematics) Any algebraic structure equipped with a hyperoperation.
(mathematics) A set of sets or a system of systems.
- 2013 -, Holger Berg, Transitions of Energy Regimes: An Evolutionary Economic Interpretation, →ISBN:
  One has also to remember that within a hyperstructure - which a regime resembles - not every entity and organization has to be in the same area of state space.
(architecture) A very densely populated habitat, as in arcology.
- 2011, Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout, The City Reader, →ISBN:
  With historical landscapes erased, with megastructures and superblocks as primary components, and with an increasingly dense and self-contained circulation system, the new financial district is best conceived as a single, demonically self-referential hyperstructure, a Miesian skyscape raised to dementia.
(computing) A set of documents interlinked by hyperlinks, along with the links between documents.
- 1991, André Lichnerowicz, Intelligent text and image handling:
  The editing process is split between the hyperstructure editing process and the content editing process: the hyperstructure editing enables the editing of the constituents defined in the hyperstructure: nodes, links, hyperdocuments etc .
- 1993, B. Z. Barta, John Eccleston, Rudolf Hambusch, Computer mediated education of information technology professionals and advanced end-users, page 159:
  There are close relationships between these items. For example, a syntax rule presented by text, and its corresponding concept illustrated by a cartoon have a close relation. Therefore, a function is needed to support the reference operation freely between closely related items. A hyperstructure is used to achieve this function.
- 1995, Conference Proceedings: Annual SIGDOC Volume 13:
  Hyperstructure hotlists provide two valuable enhancements to conventional WWW indexing tools.