Hyperstructure
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any algebraic structure equipped with a hyperoperation.
- 2 A set of sets or a system of systems.
"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."
- 3 A very densely populated habitat, as in arcology.
"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."
- 4 A set of documents interlinked by hyperlinks, along with the links between documents.
"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 ."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hyper- + structure.
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