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Link, links, linking may refer to:

Education

  • Hands On Learning Australia
    Hands On Learning Australia
    Hands On Learning Australia is a not-for-profit organisation listed as a Harm Prevention Charity by the Australian Government. The charity was assisted to come into being by Social Ventures Australia and became an Australian company in 2008 with a board of directors providing governance and...

    , implements the HOL LiNK program (Literacy and Numeracy Knowledge)

Music

  • Link (singer), an American R&B singer
  • "Link" (song)
    Link (song)
    "Link" is the twenty-ninth single by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on July 20, 2005. It is the second track by the band to be used in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime franchise, following "Ready Steady Go", used as the opening theme to the feature-length film Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of...

    , a single by the Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel
  • "Links 2-3-4
    Links 2-3-4
    "Links 2-3-4" is a song by the Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein, released on their third studio album, Mutter .-Overview:...

    ", a 2001 single by Rammstein
  • Link Wray
    Link Wray
    Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer....

    , American rock and roll guitarist
  • WLNK
    WLNK
    WLNK, known on the air as "107.9 The Link", is a 100,000 watt radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina. It broadcasts at 107.9 MHz, primarily serving the Charlotte metropolitan area...

     (107. 9 the Link), a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina

Television and film

  • Link (film)
    Link (film)
    Link is a 1986 British horror film starring Elisabeth Shue and Terence Stamp. The title character, "Link", is a super-intelligent orangutan who lashes out against his masters when they try to have him put to sleep...

    , a 1986 horror movie featuring an orangutan
  • Link TV
    Link TV
    Link TV is a non-commercial American satellite television network providing "diverse perspectives on world and national issues." It is carried nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network. Link TV was launched as a daily, 24-hour non-commercial network in 1999...

    , an independent American satellite television network
  • Link (The Matrix), a character in Matrix media
  • Link Larkin, a character from the musical Hairspray
    Hairspray (musical)
    Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues...

  • Link, the ice age man character in the 1992 American film Encino Man
    Encino Man
    Encino Man, released in Europe as California Man, is a 1992 comedy film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Brendan Fraser, Sean Astin and Pauly Shore. The plot revolves around two geeky teenagers from Encino, Los Angeles, California played by Astin and Shore, who discover a caveman in their...

  • Link Hogthrob
    Link Hogthrob
    Link Hogthrob was a fictional character, a Muppet pig on The Muppet Show, performed by Jim Henson. The character was that of a stereotypical leading man, with wavy blond hair, a manly cleft chin, and a high opinion of himself, but not much between the ears....

    , character from The Muppets

Video games

  • Link (The Legend of Zelda), the main character in The Legend of Zelda media
  • Linking Book, a form of travel in the Myst series of games
  • Links (computer game)
    Links (computer game)
    Links was the name of a series of golf simulation computer games, first developed by Access Software, and then later by Microsoft Game Studios after Microsoft acquired Access Software. The line of golf games was a flagship brand for Access, and the series spanned several years: from 1990 to 2003...

    , computer-simulated golf game by Access Software
  • Pokémon Link!
    Pokémon Trozei!
    , released as Pokémon Link! in Europe, is a Pokémon-themed puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS. It was released in Japan on October 20, 2005, in North America on March 6, 2006, in Australia on March 30, 2006, and in Europe on May 5, 2006.-Gameplay:...

    , a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS. Known as Pokémon Trozei! outside of Europe

Organizations

  • Project LINK, a United Nations project to build global macroeconomic models
  • LINK (UK)
    LINK (UK)
    LINK is a shared interbank network of automated teller machines operating in the United Kingdom. The network counts 37 member institutions, of which many are various banks and building societies issuing LINK ATM cards, and the remainder are independent ATM operators who do not issue cards...

    , an ATM (cashpoint) network in the United Kingdom
  • The Link (organisation)
    The Link (organisation)
    The Link was established in July 1937 as an 'independent non-party organisation to promote Anglo-German friendship'. It generally operated as a cultural organisation, although its journal, the Anglo-German Review reflected the pro-Nazi views of Admiral Sir Barry Domvile, and particularly in London...

    , a short-lived British organization founded in 1937 "to promote Anglo-German friendship"
  • The Link REIT
    The Link REIT
    The Link REIT is one of the world's largest REITs, or real estate investment trusts with assets of around US$3.3 billion....

    , a real estate investment trust established by the Hong Kong Housing Authority to privatize shopping malls and carparks
  • The Links, Incorporated, an African-American female professional service organization
  • Hong Kong Link
    Hong Kong Link
    Hong Kong Link 2004 Limited is a company wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong created to securitise revenue from five government-owned toll tunnels and the Lantau Link. This is not to be confused with The Link REIT, which was also created by the Government of Hong Kong to privatise its...

    , a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong
  • Liberty in North Korea
    Liberty in North Korea
    Liberty in North Korea is a grassroots organization in North America working full-time on the North Korean human rights issue. LiNK is headquartered in Torrance, California, USA with affiliates and chapters all over the world.-Mission:...

     (LiNK), a human rights advocacy group
  • LINKS, a collection of student run St John Ambulance units
  • Link+
    LINK+
    Link+ or LINK+ is a networked catalog of contributed holdings from participating academic and public libraries in California and Nevada. Through Link+, library patrons can check out a book from any participating library via their own local library and have it delivered to the library of their...

    , a facility for interlibrary loan among participating libraries in California and Nevada
  • Local Involvement Networks (LINks)
    Local Involvement Networks
    Local Involvement Networks were launched by the United Kingdom National Health Service in April 2008 following the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007...

    , patient and public involvement organisations in England

People

  • Edwin Albert Link
    Edwin Albert Link
    Edwin Albert Link was a pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and ocean engineering. He is most remembered for inventing the flight simulator, commercialized in 1929, called the "Blue Box" or "Link Trainer", which started the now multi-billion dollar flight simulation industry...

     (1904-1981), American inventor and engineer
  • Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
    Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
    Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist.Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link , who taught him the love for nature through collection of 'natural objects'...

     (1767-1850), German naturalist and botanist
  • Goethe Link
    Goethe Link
    Goethe Link was a noted Indianapolis surgeon who specialized in the treatment of goitre and thyroid problems, developing many innovative surgical techniques for these conditions....

     (1879-1980), American surgeon and amateur astronomer

Mathematics and statistics

  • Link (knot theory)
    Link (knot theory)
    In mathematics, a link is a collection of knots which do not intersect, but which may be linked together. A knot can be described as a link with one component. Links and knots are studied in a branch of mathematics called knot theory...

    , a union of separated mathematical knots, possibly tangled together
  • Link (geometry), a graph derived from edges and corners incident to a vertex
  • The link function, used in generalized linear models

Sport

  • Links (golf)
    Links (golf)
    A links is the oldest style of golf course, first developed in Scotland. The word "links" comes from the Scots language and refers to an area of coastal sand dunes and sometimes to open parkland. It also retains this more general meaning in the Scottish English dialect...

    , a type of golf course
  • Links (magazine)
    Links (magazine)
    Links is a U.S. bi-monthly golf magazine published by Purcell Enterprises, Inc. in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina...

    , a U.S. golf magazine

Computing and Internet

  • Links (web browser)
    Links (web browser)
    Links is an open source text and graphic web browser with a pull-down menu system. It renders complex pages, has partial HTML 4.0 support , supports color and monochrome terminals and allows horizontal scrolling.It is oriented toward visual users who want to retain many typical elements of...

    , a visual Internet browser for Unix-like systems; primarily terminal-based, but there is a graphical variant
  • Links (programming language)
    Links (programming language)
    Links is an application programming language for the web that presents an alternative tothe usual tiered architecture.Typical web applications are written using a model that separates functionality that runs...

    , an application programming language for the web that presents an alternative to the usual three-tier architecture of web development.
  • Hyperlink
    Hyperlink
    In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...

    , an element of an electronic source of information that branches users from one site to the next through links that does not show the address
  • or , an HTML element
    HTML element
    An HTML element is an individual component of an HTML document. HTML documents are composed of a tree of HTML elements and other nodes, such as text nodes. Each element can have attributes specified. Elements can also have content, including other elements and text. HTML elements represent...


Measurement

  • Link, a standard unit of 24 Hz (i.e., twenty-four cycles per second), basically measuring frames
    24p
    In video technology, 24p refers to a video format that operates at 24 frames per second frame rate with progressive scanning . Originally, 24p was used in the non-linear editing of film-originated material...

     of animation
    Animation
    Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

    .
  • Link (unit), a British and US unit of linear measure in surveying: 100 links = 1 chain

Telecommunications

  • Telecommunications link
  • Data link
    Data link
    In telecommunication a data link is the means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving information. It can also refer to a set of electronics assemblies, consisting of a transmitter and a receiver and the interconnecting data telecommunication circuit...

  • Downlink
  • Point-to-point link
  • Satellite link
    Satellite link
    A satellite link is a communications subsystem that involves a link between a transmitting Earth station and a receiving Earth station via a communications satellite.-See also:*Earth terminal*Telecommunications link*Satellite truck*Ku band*C band...


Transportation

  • LINK Train, a people-mover train in the Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada
  • Link Light Rail
    Link Light Rail
    Sound Transit Link Light Rail is a rapid transit project in the Greater Seattle region, originally approved by a ballot measure in November 1996. Two lines are currently operating as of 2009: Tacoma Link, which uses 3 vehicles built by Škoda, and Central Link, which uses 35 vehicles built by Kinki...

    , a light rail project in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, US
  • San Leandro LINKS
    San Leandro LINKS
    San Leandro LINKS or West San Leandro Shuttle usually referred to simply as the Links Bus is a free public transit service in San Leandro, California.-Service:...

     is a bus service known as the link shuttle

Other uses

  • Link (chain)
    Chain
    A chain is a sequence of connected links.Chain may also refer to:Chain may refer to:* Necklace - a jewelry which is worn around the neck* Mail , a type of armor made of interlocking chain links...

    , a single segment of a chain
  • Link River
    Link River
    The Link River is a short river connecting Upper Klamath Lake to Lake Ewauna in the city of Klamath Falls in the U.S. state of Oregon. Draining a basin of , the river begins at the southern end of Klamath Lake and flows a short distance to the Link River Dam and continues to the head of Lake Ewauna...

    , a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, US
  • Link, a single sausage
    Sausage
    A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat , mixed with salt, herbs, and other spices, although vegetarian sausages are available. The word sausage is derived from Old French saussiche, from the Latin word salsus, meaning salted.Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made...

    , originally part of a chain
  • A link is the numerical value 'linking' two dozen
    Dozen
    A dozen is a grouping of approximately twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year...

     (12 + 12 = 24) of anything.
  • Link, or linking col, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence
    Topographic prominence
    In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop , or prime factor , categorizes the height of the mountain's or hill's summit by the elevation between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit...

  • The Links, mascot for Lincoln High School
  • L.I.N.K.: Low Income No Kids, a financial term used for single individuals with no kids, see DINKY
    Dinky
    Dinky may refer to:* Dinky Duck, a toon by Terrytoons* Dinky Toys, a brand of die-cast toy vehicles* Dinky Bingham, a musician and music producer...

  • Links, the Office Assistant
    Office Assistant
    The Office Assistant was a Microsoft Office feature to assist users by way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. It used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms...

     cat, one of several interactive animated characters available in Microsoft Office
    Microsoft Office
    Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...

     to assist users who interface with the Office help content

See also

  • Linker (disambiguation)
  • Language Integrated Query
    Language Integrated Query
    Language Integrated Query is a Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages, although ports exist for Java, PHP and JavaScript....

     (LINQ, pronounced "link"), Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages
  • Linc (disambiguation)
  • Linx (disambiguation)
  • Lynx (disambiguation)
    Lynx (disambiguation)
    A lynx is a type of wild cat.Lynx may also refer to:-Individuals:* Emcee Lynx , anarchist hip hop artist from the San Francisco Bay Area* Lynx Vaughan Gaede , a member of the American white nationalist folk teen duo Prussian Blue...

  • Microsoft Lync
  • The Link (disambiguation)
  • Missing Link
    Missing Link
    Missing link is a nonscientific term for any transitional fossil, especially one connected with human evolution; see Transitional fossil - Missing links and List of transitonal fossils - Human evolution.Missing Link may refer to:...

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