Transclusion

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The practice of including portions of one resource within another while maintaining a single instance is known as embedding
2. The act of incorporating segments from one document into another, preserving a single version is referred to as a method of inclusion
3. This refers to the technique of integrating parts from one source into a different context while ensuring only one copy exists

Etymology: Ted Nelson, the American information technologist, philosopher and sociologist who pioneered hypertext, needed a name for a particular kind of reuse, and he built it by swapping a single prefix. "Inclusion" already describes putting one thing inside another, with "in-" meaning "into" or "inwards." Nelson replaced that prefix with "trans-," meaning "through," "over" or "across," to name the act of bringing a passage from one document into another while it remains the same original, rather than copying it. He introduced the term in his 1981 book Literary Machines. The result is a coinage rather than an ancient word: its parts are a Latin prefix and the familiar base "-clusion," and the sense shifted from simple insertion toward a link to something that stays where it originally lives.

Synonyms: inclusion, embedding, incorporation, integration, appending

Antonyms: exclusion, removal, detachment, separation, disconnection