linkage

Meaning

  1. A mechanical device that connects things.
  2. A connection or relation between things or ideas.
  3. The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
  4. The property of genes of being inherited together.
  5. A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
  6. A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.

Frequency

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɪŋkɪdʒ/
Etymology

From link + -age.

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