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1. Make a logical or causal connection
   - associate, tie in, relate, colligate, link up, connect
    
2. Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
   "Link arms"
   - connect, tie, link up
    
3. Be or become joined or united or linked
   "The travellers linked up again at the airport"
   - connect, link up, join, unite
    
4. Link with or as with a yoke
   - yoke

1. The means of connection between things linked in series
   - nexus
    
2. A fastener that serves to join or connect
   "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction"
   - linkup, tie, tie-in
    
3. The state of being connected
   - connection, connectedness
    
4. A connecting shape
   - connection, connexion [Brit]
    
5. A unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
    
6. (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
    
7. A channel for communication between groups
   - liaison, contact, inter-group communication
    
8. A two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
   - radio link
    
9. An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
   - data link

Derived forms: links, linking, linked

See also: linkage

Type of: attach, cerebrate, channel, circuit, cogitate, command, communication channel, communication system, electric circuit, electrical circuit, fastener, fastening, fixing, form, holdfast, instruction, line, linear measure, linear unit, linkage, program line, shape, statement, think, unification, union

Part of: chain

Encyclopedia: Link