Abstention:
restraining oneself from indulging in something.

Actuator:
a type of of motor for moving or controlling a mechanism or system.

Aporia:
puzzle

Author:
an originator of a plan or idea.

Castrato:
man with a woman's singing voice.

CSS:
cascading style sheets.

Cybertexts:
pieces of literature where the medium is important.

Diegetic:
a narrative or plot, typically in a movie.

Doctrine:
a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a group.

Elision:
the sound of a syllable when speaking.

Glossary

Ergodic:
making links between fragments.

Extranoematic:
outside of the head.

Flagon:
a large container used to serve drink.

Haptic: a multi-sensory experience.

Hypertext:
fragments of text (lexia or textrons) which are connected with links. Each lexia can have many links, this creates interactivity by having no set path.

Impasse
a situation where no progress is possible.

Imperfective:
a situation viewed from the inside as ongoing.

Interface:
enables a user to communicate with the computer.

Interiority:
the quality of being interior or inward (introvert)

Intransitively: corresponds to a verb that does not need a direct object i.e, to sleep.

Obviate:
remove.

Ontological:
relating to or based upon being or existence.

Perfective:
a situation viewed from the outside as completed.

Prodigality:
giving something a lavish scale.

Socialized:
organise according to the principles of socialism.

Source Code:
text written using the format and syntax of the programming language.

Rhetoric:
the art of persuasive speaking/writing.

URL:
uniform resource locator.

Verisimilitude:
the appearance of being true or real.

Virago:
a domineering, bad tempered or violent woman.

an alphabetical list of terms or words found in a text, or dialect, with explanations.