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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linkage \Link"age\ (l[i^][ng]k"[asl]j; 48), n.
The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.
(Chem.) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule.
(Geom.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane.
Any object, factor, or relationship that creates a bond or association between two other objects.
Specifically: (Genetics) The proximity of two or more genes on the genome of an organism that causes those genes to be inherited, transferred, or moved together with a frequency greater than for genes not associated. The linkage is a continuous variable, and is inversely related to the distance between genes on the genome.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1874, from link (v.) + -age. \n\nTo understand the principle of Peaucellier's link-work, it is convenient to consider previously certain properties of a linkage, (to coin a new and useful word of general application), consisting of an arrangement of six links, obtained in the following manner ... (etc.).
["Recent Discoveries in Mechanical Conservation of Motion," in "Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine," vol. XI, July-December 1874]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mechanical device that connects things. 2 A connection or relation between things or ideas. 3 (context genetics English) The property of genes of being inherited together. 4 (context linguistics English) 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.
WordNet
n. an associative relation
(genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) [syn: gene linkage]
a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
the act of linking things together
Wikipedia
Linkage may refer to:
- Linkage (album), by J-pop singer Mami Kawada, released in 2010
- Linkage (graph theory), the maximum min-degree of any of its subgraphs
- Linkage (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Linkage (hierarchical clustering), The linkage criterion determines the distance between sets of observations as a function of the pairwise distances between observations
- Linkage (linguistics), an unclear group of undoubtedly related languages in contact
- Linkage (mechanical), assemblies of links designed to manage forces and movement
- Linkage (policy), a Cold War policy of the United States of America towards the Soviet Union and Communist China
- Linkage (software), a concept in computer programming
- Genetic linkage, the tendency of certain genes to be inherited together
- Flux linkage, the total flux passing through a surface formed by a closed conducting loop
A mechanical linkage is an assembly of bodies connected to manage forces and movement. The movement of a body, or link, is studied using geometry so the link is considered to be rigid. The connections between links are modeled as providing ideal movement, pure rotation or sliding for example, and are called joints. A linkage modeled as a network of rigid links and ideal joints is called a kinematic chain.
Linkages may be constructed from open chains, closed chains, or a combination of open and closed chains. Each link in a chain is connected by a joint to one or more other links. Thus, a kinematic chain can be modeled as a graph in which the links are paths and the joints are vertices, which is called a linkage graph.
The movement of an ideal joint is generally associated with a subgroup of the group of Euclidean displacements. The number of parameters in the subgroup is called the degrees of freedom (DOF) of the joint. Mechanical linkages are usually designed to transform a given input force and movement into a desired output force and movement. The ratio of the output force to the input force is known as the mechanical advantage of the linkage, while the ratio of the input speed to the output speed is known as the speed ratio. The speed ratio and mechanical advantage are defined so they yield the same number in an ideal linkage.
A kinematic chain, in which one link is fixed or stationary, is called a mechanism, and a linkage designed to be stationary is called a structure.
In historical linguistics, a linkage is a group of related languages that is formed when a proto-language breaks up into a network of dialects that gradually differentiates into separate languages. This term was introduced by Malcolm Ross in his study of the Western Oceanic languages ; it is contrasted with a family, which arises when the proto-language speech community separates into groups that are isolated from each other, rather than forming a network.
Linkage (born in 1979 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse he was the son of Hoist the Flag and grandson to Tom Rolfe. Linkage will be best remembered for winning the 1982 Blue Grass Stakes and placing second five weeks later in the $200,000 grade 1 Preakness Stakes to Aloma's Ruler.
Linkage was a policy pursued by the United States of America, championed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, during the 1970s period of Cold War Détente which aimed to persuade the Soviet Union and Communist China to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for concessions in nuclear and economic fields. However, despite this lack of Soviet intervention, a large number of revolutions still occurred in these third world countries, thereby undermining this policy. The premise behind linkage, as a policy, was to connect political and military issues, thereby establishing a relationship making progress in area "A" dependent on progress in area "B."
An important aspect of this policy was that deviations from respecting the rights and interests would go punished. The intent of such action is to bring home to the offending state the limitations of acceptable international behavior and demonstrate that attempts at expansion (and upsetting international stability) would go punished. In this way, conflict itself would contribute to stabilizing the international order.
The Nixon-Kissinger approach did not link foreign and domestic areas.
Selective relaxation of tensions is an opposing policy to linkage. Then, an issue of arms control could be addressed and tension diminished while maintaining the status quo in other strategic areas.
In programming languages, particularly the compiled ones like C, C++, and D, linkage describes how names can or can not refer to the same entity throughout the whole program or one single translation unit.
The static keyword is used in C to restrict the visibility of a function or variable to its translation unit. This is also valid in C++. (C++ 98/03 deprecated this usage in favor of anonymous namespaces, but is no longer deprecated in C++ 11.) Also, C++ implicitly treats any const namespace-scope variable as having internal linkage unless it is explicitly declared extern, unlike C.
A name's linkage is related to, but distinct from, its scope. The scope of a name is the part of a translation unit where it is visible. For instance, a name with global scope (which is the same as file-scope in C and the same as the global namespace-scope in C++) is visible in any part of the file. Its scope will end at the end of the translation unit, whether or not that name has been given external or internal linkage.
If the name has external linkage, the entity that name denotes may be referred to from another translation unit using a distinct declaration for that same name, and from other scopes within the same translation unit using distinct declarations. Were the name given internal linkage, such a declaration would denote a distinct entity, although using the same name, but its entity could be referred to by distinct declarations within the same translation unit. A name that has no linkage at all cannot be referred to from declarations in different scopes, not even from within the same translation unit. Examples of such names are parameters of functions and local variables. The details differ between C (where only objects and functions - but not types - have linkage) and C++ and between this simplified overview.
Linkage between languages must be done with some care, as different languages adorn their external symbols differently. A common idiom uses [[extern "C"]] to link C++ and C code.
Linkage (styled as LINKAGE) is the third album by J-pop singer Mami Kawada. It was released on March 24, 2010 under Geneon Universal Entertainment. This album contains thirteen tracks which includes her singles " PSI-Missing", " Masterpiece" and " Prophecy". This album also contains the ending theme for the original video animation anime series Shakugan no Shana S entitled "All In Good Time" and a cover song of The Cranberries' hit song entitled " Dreams".
This album came in a limited CD+DVD edition (GNCV-1017) and a regular CD-only edition (GNCV-1018). The DVD contains the music video for the title track "Linkage".
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.