One image which has different clickable areas (linking to different places, as opposed to just one place). This is done by writing the coordinates of each area into a piece of computer code.

A graphic overlay that contains more than one area (or hot spot) which is clickable and links to another web page or anchor. Image maps provide an alternative to text links for directing the user to a [..]

A graphic on a web page used for navigation. Clicking on different representative areas of the graphic links you to different related pages. Web designers should always consider alternate menus for im [..]

A Web page feature in which hyperlinks are assigned ("mapped") to different portions of a graphic image, thereby allowing users to access links by clicking with a mouse on the mapped areas. Note: Image map requests are processed by CGI scripts on the server.

Jensens Internet Dictionary A graphic image at WWW sites that is a navigational tool. It contains two elements: (1) the graphic that is visible on the screen and (2) a text file that contains the HTML or other hyperlink coding. (See also World Wide Web)

A single graphic image containing more than one hot spot. For example, imagine a graphic of a bowl of fruit. When you click on a banana, the system displays the number of calories in a banana and when [..]

An image map is a graphic image defined in terms of x and y coordinates so that a user can click on different areas of the image and be linked to different destinations.  You make an image map by defi [..]

A graphic divided into regions or "hotspots". When a particular region is clicked, it calls up a web page that has been associated with that particular region.

An image map is a graphic divided into regions or "hotspots.", that when clicked, accesses a web page that is linked to a particular region. A typical example of an image map is a website th [..]

A graphic that serves as a navigation menu and has one or more image areas („hotspots“) defined as links. Clicking on a hotspot takes the visitor to the related page. As some visitor [..]

An image displayed on the Web page that has different areas that are hyperlinks. By clicking on different parts of the image browser redirects to another page, or can display a modified version of the [..]

An image map is a graphic image that contains several links within it. Move your pointer over the graphic-if the pointer turns into a hand over certain parts of the image but not over other parts of i [..]

A map or other graphic in an HTML

 A GIF or JPEG image with more than one linking hyperlink. Each hyperlink or hot spot can lead to a different destination page.  

An image map is a list of coordinates related to a image, such that clicking certain areas of the image links to different pages. With a normal image link, the entire image would link to one single pa [..]

An image divided into logical areas, each of which has a hot spot.

An image map is an HTML document containing multiple clickable hyperlinks.

(Internet) An image on a web page that is divided into shaped portions, each of which has an associated hyperlink.