Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of linking.
- noun The condition of being linked.
- noun A connection or relation; an association.
- noun A negotiating policy of making agreement on one issue dependent on progress toward another objective.
- noun A system of interconnected machine elements, such as rods, springs, and pivots, used to transmit power or motion.
- noun Electricity A measure of the induced voltage in a circuit caused by a magnetic flux and equal to the flux times the number of turns in the coil that surrounds it.
- noun Genetics An association between two or more genes such that the traits they control tend to be inherited together.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chem., the hypothetical connection between two atoms. Same as
bond , 11. - noun In electricity, the product obtained by-multiplying the magnetic flux through a coil by the number of turns which the coil contains.
- noun A system of connected links; a combination of pieces pivoted together so as to turn about one another in parallel planes of rotation.
- noun The state of being linked together.
- noun a linkage which has one, two, etc., degrees of freedom more than a complete linkage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.
- noun (Chem.) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.
- noun (Geom.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.
- noun Any object, factor, or relationship that creates a bond or association between two other objects.
- noun (Genetics) The proximity of two or more genes on the genome of an organism that causes those genes to be inherited, transferred, or moved together with a frequency greater than for genes not associated. The linkage is a continuous variable, and is inversely related to the distance between genes on the genome.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A mechanical device that connects things.
- noun A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- noun genetics The property of genes of being inherited together.
- noun linguistics A set of definitely related words for which no
proto-language can be derived.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an associative relation
- noun a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
- noun the act of linking things together
- noun (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, the exact nature of this linkage is an interesting question ... but there it is.
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No. One can conclude that the linkage is a rational interpretation, not contradicted by empirical evidence.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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One can conclude that the linkage is a rational interpretation, not contradicted by empirical evidence.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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I'm not going to explore what those consequences might be or whether the linkage is appropriate but instead want to focus on another implication inherent in the statement.
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More recently, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group of 2006 noted what it described as the linkage between making progress in an Arab-Israeli peace process and U.S. success in emerging from Iraq.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Patrick Martin 2010
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Jay, thank you for your contributions — both in linkage and in commentage.
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The way to break the employment/health care linkage is to allow associations to contract on the same basis that corporations do – across state lines without state mandates.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » But What Happens if People Actually Change Their Behavior? 2010
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That linkage is acknowledged, but not explicitly questioned.
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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The linkage is an inference you've drawn all on your own, and it obviously bothers you a lot.
Changing Your Name 2008
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One medium where we can see this linkage is in textile work, the manual labor favored in many female Dominican houses.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The technical term for this is “linkage drag”: all the unintended, and unknown, genes that get pulled along during cross-pollination, like fish in a net.
Learning to Love G.M.O.s By 2021
alv commented on the word linkage
I wonder if just "link" could work in its place...
What about "connection"?
January 29, 2007
uselessness commented on the word linkage
In most traditional cases, I'd agree. But the word has found use on the internet when referring to a large volume of hyperlinks. In this case, "linkage" refers to a measure of links rather than a single link.
January 29, 2007