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English-Russian Glossary on Information Society
1. Combination of many media using, for example, sound, pictures,
and text.
2. Interaction of visual and audio effects under
special software control. Usually means a combination of text, sound
and graphics, recently also that of animation and video. A characteristic
(if not a determining) feature of multimedia web nodes and CDs are
hyperlinks.
3. Combination of voice, text, data, as well as still and moving
images. A multimedia database, for example, would contain textual
information, images, video clips, tables of data, all equally easy
to access. A multimedia telecommunication service would permit the
user to send or receive any of these forms of information, interchangeability
at will.
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© The
British Council in Russia. April 2001
© Institute of the
Information Society - Russia. April 2001
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