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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
  • <link />, 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

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

Video games

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

See also