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The term link can refer to:
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Computer Related
- A connection between two components of a network.
- A hyperlink.
- Link, a video game character in the Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo.
- Links, a web browser for Unix-like systems
- A symbolic link or hard link to a computer file, associating a filename with another file or a file's data.
- A telecommunications network, a communications channel between adjacent nodes.
- Other types of communication channel are data link, downlink, duplex link, fiber optic link, line-of-sight link, point-to-point link, and satellite link.
- A verb "to link, which in computer science means to assemble object files and libraries into an executable file or library.
Persons and Character Related
- Edwin Albert Link, aviation pioneer.
- Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, German botanist.
- Link, a minor character in the Matrix trilogy.
- Link, the protaganist of the Legend of Zelda games.
- William Roy "Link" Lyman, a professional football player.
Organizations Related
- Hong Kong Link, a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong.
- Liberation in North Korea (LINK), a human rights advocacy group.
- The Link, a short-lived British organization founded in 1937 "to promote Anglo-German friendship".
- The Link REIT, a real estate investment trust established by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to privatize shopping malls and carparks.
Other
- A connection between two objects, or an element of a chain.
- A connection between two components of a network.
- links, a type of golf course
- Link, a 1986 horror movie featuring an orang-utan of that name.
- A sausage from a chain of connected sausages.
- A link, linking col or key col in mountain topography.
- In transport, a road, railroad, cable, or pipeline (more examples).
- A connection by radio waves, or a radio path between two points is called a radio link.
- In transport, a road, railroad, cable, or pipeline (more examples).
- A union of separated mathematical knots, possibly tangled together. See link (mathematics).
- A U.S. customary unit of length equal to one hundredth of a chain.
The word Links also has several specific meanings:
See also
- A link is often referred to as one object of several identical objects "linked" together.
- Ex. "A chain is as strong as its weakest link."
- A link can be an idea, a concept, a thing, a person, and/or a place, that joins together orlinks, two or more, like or unlike, tangible and/or intangible objects.
- Ex. "Joe's publicity agency in Phoenix served as the link between the magazine in New York and the movie star in Los Angeles."
References
- Federal Standard 1037C
- MIL-STD-188
- Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms