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link rot

link rot is the alternative form of linkrot.

Meaning of linkrot

Noun

linkrot (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) The steady increase in the number of broken hyperlinks as webpages are moved or removed.
    • It turns out that link rot and content drift are endemic to the web, which is both unsurprising and shockingly risky for a library that has “billions of books and no central filing system.”2021 June 30, Jonathan Zittrain, “The Internet is Rotting”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep...
    Synonyms:
    URL rot

Questions about link rot

What is link rot the alternative form of?
Link rot is the alternative form of linkrot.

Words near link rot in the dictionary

  1. link languages
  2. link motion
  3. link motions
  4. link out
  5. link rat
  6. link rot
  7. link spam
  8. link spams
  9. link state
  10. link time
  11. link topologies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: link rot (page history and authors); linkrot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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