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1.nounSome text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action."Click the hyperlink to go to the next page."
2.noun(by extension) An address, URL, or program that defines a hyperlink's function."Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email."
3.nounA connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas."The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
4.nounOne element of a chain or other connected series."The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
5.nounThe connection between buses or systems."A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
6.nounA space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
7.nounA thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
8.nounAn individual person or element in a system
9.nounAnything doubled and closed like a link of a chain."a link of horsehair"
10.nounA sausage that is not a patty.
11.noun(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
12.nounAny intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
13.nounThe length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
14.nounA bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
15.noun(plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
16.verbTo connect two or more things.
17.verb(of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page."My homepage links to my wife's."
18.verbTo supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link."Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
19.verbTo post a hyperlink to."Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
20.verbTo demonstrate a correlation between two things.
21.verbTo combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.