(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes

Usage examples of linkage.

It traveled not only outward, seemingly building and expanding every minute, but also down the download tunnel, through the linkage transmission lines to the Anchors, and seized and cut the master computers.

Furthermore, the processes of creation are deeply integrated, for the very existence of the energy patterns which comprise the physical realm and which we experience through our mind and senses is dependent upon the hidden, inner linkage of the individual minds and senses of all the creatures involved.

And the entire silver and gray system, with its linkage to the golden torcs of the Tanu rulers, was devised by a human psychobiologist.

They had fought some succesful limited wars to keep local governments from taking over ansible linkages.

The lieutenant led the way inside, walking quickly down a brightly lit hallway a tightly controlled linkage between the strict security outside and the formidable cellblocks ahead.

The Clan had always had Choosers and mental linkage between mated pairs before maturation.

His attention was fixed on a single image, floating overhead, at the apex of the cone of light and noise: flickering market glyphs from the port computers spun in delicate linkage, legitimate public numbers and private taps combined into a single database, strings of numbers combined into a dazzling three-dimensional shape that had a weird organic beauty all its own.

In those rooms, trillions of identical Joshes peer down into a uniform grayness -- a shared quantum linkage connecting all that is potential and possible, and everything inevitable.

But the real me is spread out over a computer that billion brains and the high-bandwidth linkages that bind together.

Char as she handed them off to Jim from the linkages Outsider pushed to the very limit of capacity.

The two huge, majestically counter-rotating cylinders, the entire complex of linkages, ports, locks, shields, collectors, transmitters, docks, all became Japanesely exquisite at a distance of several hundred kilometers.

He could feel the webwork of linkages, now, coursing out from the altar.

While the Bauble could theoretically be subdivided into millions of individual macromolecules, it was in fact one super-macromolecule, since the linkages between its theoretical units were themselves molecular in nature.

The most radical new element that comes to the fore in hypertext is the system of multidirectional and often labyrinthine linkages we are invited or obliged to create.

I would therefore recommend a thorough trawl of both solved and unsolved rapes and serious sexual assaults over the last five years in an attempt to establish crime linkage and develop a suspect.