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Link
The term link can refer to:
- One element of a chain.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Link, a video game character in the Legend of Zelda series by Nintendo.
- 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
References
- Federal Standard 1037C
- MIL-STD-188
- Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Last updated: 02-19-2005 10:29:06