links

Noun

link (plural links)

1. A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
   • The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

   Synonyms:

   connection

2. One element of a chain or other connected series.
   • The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.
3. The connection between buses or systems.
   • A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.
4. A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
5. (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
   • They used formerly to live in caves or huts dug into the side of a bank or "link," and lined with heath or straw.2008, Richard John King, A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex
6. (figuratively) An individual person or element in a system.
   • But know that God is the strongest link.2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32

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