Link

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Link usually refers to:

• A single element of a chain
• Hyperlink, a reference in an electronic document that lets a user display or activate another document or program

It can also refer to:

Education

• Hands On Learning Australia, implements the HOL LiNK program (Literacy and Numeracy Knowledge)
• The Links, mascot for Lincoln High School (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Arts

Literature

• Linked: The New Science of Networks, 2002 book by Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási

Music

• Link (singer), an American R&B singer
• Link (song), a single by the Japanese band L'Arc-en-Ciel
• Links 2-3-4, a 2001 single by Rammstein
• Link Wray, American rock and roll guitarist
• WLNK (107. 9 the Link), a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina

Television and film

• Link (film), a 1986 horror movie featuring a super-intelligent, murderous orangutan
• Link TV, an independent American satellite television network
• Link (The Matrix), a character in Matrix media
• Link Larkin, a character from the musical Hairspray (musical)
• Link (Linkovitch Chomofsky), the ice age man character in the 1992 American film Encino Man
• Link Hogthrob, 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), computer-simulated golf game by Access Software
• Pokémon Trozei! ("Pokémon Link!"), a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS

Geography

• Link, West Virginia
• Link River, a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, US

Organizations

• Project LINK, a United Nations project to build global macroeconomic models
• LINK (UK), an ATM (cashpoint) network in the United Kingdom
• The Link (organisation), a short-lived British organization founded in 1937 "to promote Anglo-German friendship"
• The Link REIT, 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, a holding company for toll tunnels and bridges wholly owned by the Government of Hong Kong
• Liberty in North Korea (LiNK), a human rights advocacy group
• LINKS, a collection of student-run units of St John Ambulance in England and Wales
• Link+, a facility for interlibrary loan among participating libraries in California and Nevada
• Local Involvement Networks (LINks), patient and public involvement organisations in England

People

• Edwin Albert Link (1904-1981), American inventor and engineer
• Goethe Link (1879-1980), American surgeon and amateur astronomer
• Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1850), German naturalist and botanist
• Kelly Link, American editor and author of short stories
• William Link, American film and television writer and producer

Science and technology

Computing and Internet

• Links (programming language), a web application programming language that presents an alternative to the usual three-tier architecture of web development.
• Links (web browser), a visual Internet browser for Unix-like systems; primarily terminal-based, but there is a graphical variant
• Hyperlink, a reference in an electronic document that lets a user display or activate another document or program
• Reference (computer science), a value that enables a program to access a particular datum
• A link (link) or anchor (a) HTML element
• Linker (computing), the process of taking one or more objects generated by a compiler and combining them into a single executable program.
• Links, an animated character used in the Microsoft Office Assistant

Hardware

• Each of the parts that connected make a chain

Mathematics and statistics

• Link (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
• Link in graph theory may mean either the same as link in geometry or "edge of a hypergraph"

Measurement

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

Telecommunications

• Telecommunications link
• Data link
• Downlink
• Point-to-point link
• Satellite link

Topography

• Link, or linking col, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence

Sport

• Links (golf), a type of golf course
• Links (magazine), a U.S. golf magazine

Transportation

• LINK Train, a people-mover train in the Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada
• Link Light Rail, a light rail project in Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, US
• San Leandro LINKS is a bus service known as the link shuttle

Other

• Link, a single sausage, originally part of a chain

See also

• Linker (disambiguation)
• Linc (disambiguation)
• Linq (disambiguation)
• Linx (disambiguation)
• Lynx (disambiguation)
• Microsoft Lync
• Missing Link
• The Link (disambiguation)