- 1link (between A and B) a connection between two or more people or things Police suspect there may be a link between the two murders. evidence for a strong causal link between exposure to sun and skin cancer see missing link
- 2a relationship between two or more people, countries, or organizations link (with something) to establish trade links with Asia The department is interested in developing closer links with industry. link (between A and B) Social customs provide a vital link between generations.
- 3a means of traveling or communicating between two places a high-speed rail link a video link The speech was broadcast via a satellite link.
- 4(computing) a place in an electronic document that is connected to another electronic document or to another part of the same document synonym hot link To visit similar Web sites to this one, click on the links at the bottom of the page.
- 5each ring of a chain
- 6(also link sausage, sausage link) a chain of long thin sausages; an individual long thin sausage They sell breakfast sausages in links or patties. Idioms
one of the stages in a process or a line of argument Food production, processing and marketing are different links in the chain from farmer to consumer. Death is the last link in the chain.
the point at which a system or an organization is most likely to fail She went straight for the one weak link in the chain of his argument.
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