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dangling links

dangling links is the plural of dangling link.

Meaning of dangling link

Noun

dangling link (plural dangling links)

  1. (Internet) A URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.
    • Earlier hypertext arrangements kept a record of every single link in the system to avoid "dangling links" — links pointing to nothing. But creating the Web at scale meant users would have to be able to delete documents without telling every single other user about the deletion, even if that...2014 November 12, Alex Fitzpatrick, “4 Things You Might Not Have Known About the World Wide Web's Inventor”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

Questions about dangling links

What is dangling links the plural of?
Dangling links is the plural of dangling link.

Words near dangling links in the dictionary

  1. dangling
  2. dangling after
  3. dangling else
  4. dangling elses
  5. dangling link
  6. dangling links
  7. dangling modifier
  8. dangling modifiers
  9. dangling participle
  10. dangling participles
  11. dangling pointer

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