Link

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The term link can refer to:

• A connection between two objects, or an element of a chain.
• A sausage from a chain of connected sausages.
• A hyperlink.
• A connection between two components of a network.
  • In transport, a road, railroad, cable, or pipeline (more examples).
  • In a telecommunications network, a communications channel between adjacent nodes.
    • A connection by radio waves, or a radio path between two points is called a radio link.
    • 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 union of separated mathematical knots, possibly tangled together.
• A link, linking col or key col in mountain topography.
• The verb "to link, which in computer science means to assemble object files and libraries into an executable file or library.
• A symbolic link or hard link to a computer file, associating a filename with another file or a file's data.
• A U.S. customary unit of length equal to one hundredth of a chain.
• Link, a video game character in the Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo.
• Edwin Albert Link, aviation pioneer.
• Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, German botanist.
• William Roy "Link" Lyman, a professional football player.
• Liberation in North Korea, 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.
• Hong Kong Link, a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong.
• Link, a minor character in the Matrix series.
• Link, a 1986 horror movie featuring an orang-utan of that name

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