Node:
Also known as; Frame, lexia.

Node is an emerging term that is coming to replace the usage of the problematic term "Lexia" in hypertext literary criticism. As Joseph Tabbi explains, "any breakdown of text into a field of interconnecting lexia depends not primarily on the author, but rather on the reader." http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/brainlang/tabbi_paper.html

A node is a self-contained unit of meaning within a hypertextual network. It is the linking of nodes which typifies certain hypertext fiction

Hypertext fiction

Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provides a new context for non-linearity in "literature" and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text to the next, and in this fashion arranges a...

s, such as those created in Storyspace

Storyspace

Storyspace was the first software program specifically developed for creating, editing, and reading hypertext fiction. It was developed in the 1980s by Jay David Bolter and Michael Joyce, who presented it to the first international meeting on Hypertext at Chapel Hill in October 1987...

. The term node is taken from computer science.