Definitions for linkage

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linkage link·age

Spelling: [ling-kij]

IPA: /ˈlɪŋ kɪdʒ/

Linkage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in linkage (aegikln).

Definitions for linkage

noun

1. the act of linking; state or manner of being linked.
2. a system of links.
3. Genetics. an association between two or more genes on a chromosome that tends to cause the characteristics determined by these genes to be inherited as an inseparable unit.
4. Machinery. an assembly of four or more rods for transmitting motion, usually in the same plane or in parallel planes.
5. a factor or relationship that connects or ties one thing to another; link:
6. any of various mathematical or drawing devices consisting of a combination of bars or pieces pivoted together so as to turn about one another, usually in parallel planes.
7. Electricity. flux linkage.

Origin of linkage

First recorded in 1870-75; link¹ + -age

Examples for linkage

I have not found the word "linkage" used earlier than Sylvester.

linkage or no linkage, the question of Netanyahu's intentions remains.

There is more than metaphor in such a comparison; there is the linkage of the immanent idea.

And here comes the linkage theory, which is very popular these days in Israel.

In carrying on a stock of a lethal, advantage can be taken of linkage.

But we do not see any linkage in which we seek to give on one issue and receive on the other.

linkage or no linkage, the question as to Netanyahu's intentions remains.

Evidently, by exercising this linkage of stimulus and response.

When she was finished Rynason nodded for her to activate the linkage.

Ironically, in this dispute, the atheist Hoyle was on the side of the pope in seeing a linkage between the Big Bang and God.