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1.NounA mechanical device that connects things."A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear."
2.NounA connection or relation between things or ideas.
3.NounThe act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
4.NounThe property of genes of being inherited together.
5.NounA set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
6.NounA United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.