Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chain-link having a movable section, so that it can be used to unite two portions of a chain. Also called
coupling-link . - noun Figuratively, anything that links or joins one thing to another; that which serves to connect or unite members of a series, or to fill a hiatus between them: as, a connecting-link in an argument, or in a chain of evidence; a connecting-link between two orders of being.
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Examples
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Because bull trout cannot tolerate water warmer than 60 °F 15 °C, all the connecting-link populations from the Columbia basin to Upper Klamath Lake and to the McCloud River would have been lost during postglacial warming.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Because bull trout cannot tolerate water warmer than 60 °F 15 °C, all the connecting-link populations from the Columbia basin to Upper Klamath Lake and to the McCloud River would have been lost during postglacial warming.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Because bull trout cannot tolerate water warmer than 60 °F 15 °C, all the connecting-link populations from the Columbia basin to Upper Klamath Lake and to the McCloud River would have been lost during postglacial warming.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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Because bull trout cannot tolerate water warmer than 60 °F 15 °C, all the connecting-link populations from the Columbia basin to Upper Klamath Lake and to the McCloud River would have been lost during postglacial warming.
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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A very evident connecting-link between these urns and the later sepulchral stele appears in monuments which show just such urns projected in relief upon a plane surface.
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I can only hope that you are in some measure a connecting-link between the school and its mission ....
Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson
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The dwellings of this class form a connecting-link between the second and third periods, which may be said to have commenced about 1730, when the growing commercial importance of the seaport towns and the rapid accumulation of wealth induced a more lavish and elegant style of living.
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Therefore we may conclude that the radical axis indicates a tendency of particles, or individuals, to fly off at a tangent, at right angles to the connecting-link between the individual and the king.
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Serving as a connecting-link between the British and the French and
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General Maude once told me that pressure was being continually brought by the high command in England or India to have that connecting-link built, but that he was convinced that the rails would be far more essential elsewhere, and had no intention of yielding.
War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916
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