Link
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Link may refer to:
Computing
Internet
- Reciprocal link, two way links to and from websites, also known as "link swaps", "link exchanges" and "link partners"
- Hyperlink, a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource
- Links (web browser), a web browser for Unix-like systems
- Magnet: URI scheme, a URI scheme for magnet links for downloading resources via peer-to-peer networks
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, an HTML element that is used to link web pages with other resources such as Cascading Style Sheets
Storage
- Hard link, a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume
- Symbolic link, a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file
Applications
- LINK+, an online library catalog
- The Link Trainer, an early type of flight simulator
Programming
- Linked list, a basic data structure
- Static link, used in programming languages like Pascal to support nested functions, allowing a nested function to access the local variables of its parent
- Linker, a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program
- Links (programming language), a programming language for web applications
Telecommunications
Organizations
- Hong Kong Link, a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong
- Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a human rights advocacy group
- LINK or Project LINK, a United Nations project to build global macroeconomic models
- The Link (organisation), a short-lived British organization founded in 1937 "to promote Anglo-German friendship"
- The Link REIT, a real estate investment trust established by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to privatize shopping malls and carparks
- LINKS, a collection of student run St John Ambulance units
- The Links, Incorporated, an African-American female professional service organization
- LINK (UK), an ATM network in the United Kingdom
Mathematics
- Link (knot theory), a union of separated mathematical knots, possibly tangled together
- Link (geometry), a graph derived from edges and corners incident to a vertex
Sport
- Links (golf), a type of golf course
Entertainment
Television
- Link TV, an independent American satellite television network
Film
- Link (film), a 1986 horror movie featuring an orangutan of that name
- "Link", the ice age man in the 1992 American comedy film Encino Man
Fictional characters
- Link (The Legend of Zelda), the main character in The Legend of Zelda media
- Link (Matrix character), a character in Matrix media
Video games
- Linking Book, a form of travel in the Myst series of games
- Links (computer game), photorealistic Golf Computer-Simulation by Access Software
Music
- Link (rapper), an American rapper
- Links 2-3-4, a 2001 single by Rammstein
- Link (album), a 1996 Goa trance album by Mathuresh
- Link (song), a single by the Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel
- WLNK (107. 9 the Link), a talk/hot adult contemporary radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina
Other
- Link (chain), a single segment of a chain
- Link (unit), a British and U.S. unit of length equal to one hundredth of a chain
- Link Light Rail, a light rail project in Seattle and Tacoma
- Linking col or link, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence
- Link, Somerset, a settlement in southwest England
- Link River, a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, connecting Upper Klamath Lake to Lake Ewauna
- Link, a single, whole sausage, originally part of a chain of two or more sausages
- Cursive, joined-up or running handwriting
- The mascot for Lincoln High School (Nebraska)
- Missing link, a transitional fossil
- LINK Train, a people-mover train in the Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada
- Goethe Link Observatory, an astronomical observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana