linkage
IPA: ɫˈɪŋkʌdʒ
noun
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
- (linguistics) A 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.
- (US, politics, historical) A 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.
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Examples of "linkage" in Sentences
- That linkage is acknowledged, but not explicitly questioned.
- Jay, thank you for your contributions — both in linkage and in commentage.
- Now, the exact nature of this linkage is an interesting question ... but there it is.
- The linkage is an inference you've drawn all on your own, and it obviously bothers you a lot.
- One can conclude that the linkage is a rational interpretation, not contradicted by empirical evidence.
- No. One can conclude that the linkage is a rational interpretation, not contradicted by empirical evidence.
- One medium where we can see this linkage is in textile work, the manual labor favored in many female Dominican houses.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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