linkage

1. A mechanical device that connects things. (countable, uncountable) · A linkage in my car's transmission is broken so I can't shift out of first gear.
2. A connection or relation between things or ideas. (countable, uncountable)
3. The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file. (countable, uncountable)
4. The property of genes of being inherited together. (countable, uncountable)
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. (countable, uncountable)
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. (US, countable, uncountable)

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