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Contents 1 Computing 1.1 Internet 1.2 Storage 1.3 Applications 1.4 Programming 2 Telecommunications 3 Organizations 4 Mathematics and statistics 5 Sport 6 Entertainment 6.1 Television and film 6.2 Video games 6.3 Music 7 People 8 Education 9 Other uses 10 See also

[edit] Computing

[edit] Internet

• Links (web browser), a software application that functions to reveal Web pages for Unix-like systems
• Hyperlink, an element of an electronic source of information that branches users from one site to the next through links
• <link /> or <a />, an HTML element

[edit] Storage

• Hard link, a reference or pointer to physical data on a storage volume
• Symbolic link, a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file

[edit] Applications

• LINK+, an online library catalog
• Link Trainer, an early type of flight simulator

[edit] Programming

• Links (programming language), a programming language for web applications
• Linker (computing), a program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program

[edit] Telecommunications

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

[edit] Organizations

• Project LINK, a United Nations project to build global macroeconomic models
• LINK (UK), an ATM 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 St John Ambulance units

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

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

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Television and film

• Link (film), a 1986 horror movie featuring an 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
• Link, the ice age man character in the 1992 American film Encino Man
• Link Hogthrob, character from The Muppets

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

[edit] Music

• Link (singer), an American R&B singer
• Link (album), a 1996 Goa trance album by Mathuresh
• "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

[edit] People

• Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1850), German naturalist and botanist
• Goethe Link (1879-1980), American surgeon and amateur astronomer

[edit] Education

• Hands On Learning Australia, implements the HOL LiNK program (Literacy and Numeracy Knowledge)

[edit] Other uses

• Link (chain), a single segment of a chain
• Link (unit), a British and US unit of linear measure in surveying: 100 links = 1 chain
• 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
• Link River, a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, US
• Link, a single sausage, originally part of a chain
• Link, or linking col, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence
• The Links, mascot for Lincoln High School
• Missing link, a transitional fossil
• L.I.N.K.: Low Income No Kids, a financial term used for single individuals with no kids, see DINKY.
• Links, the Office Assistant cat, one of several interactive animated characters available in Microsoft Office to assist users who interface with the Office help content.

[edit] See also

• The Link (disambiguation)
• Linc (disambiguation)
• Linx (disambiguation)
• Lynx (disambiguation)
• Language Integrated Query

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