Link - Definition and Overview

The term link can refer to:

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• One element of a chain.
• Link, a video game character in the Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo.
• one connection between 2 objects.
• one new name used instead of the original name of a file.
• one piece of sausage in a chain of connected sausages at the USA BBQ.
• A U.S. customary unit of length equal to one hundredth of a chain.
• A connection between two components of a network.
  • In transportation, a road, railroad, cable, or pipeline. (more examples)
  • A hyperlink, or a provision for moving from one page to another in hypertext.
  • A communications channel between adjacent nodes in a telecommunications network.
    • 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.
• In mathematics, a link is a collection of disjoint knees knots which may by mutually knotted (linked) together.
• The verb "to link", which in computer science means to assemble one or more object files and libraries into a single executable or library.
• Project LINK, a project initiated in 1968 to build the world's first global macroeconomic model.
• The Link, a British pro-German organisation founded in 1937.
• Edwin Albert Link, an aviation pioneer.
• LiNK, an acronym for Liberation in North Korea, an advocacy group for human rights in North Korea
• The Link REIT, a REIT set up by the Housing Authority in Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Link, a holding company of tunnels and bridges owned by Hong Kong Government.

References

• Federal Standard 1037C
• MIL-STD-188
• Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms