Link

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Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Entertainment
  • 2.1 Music
  • 2.2 Television and film
  • 2.3 Video games
• 3 Organizations
• 4 People
• 5 Sciences
  • 5.1 Mathematics and statistics
• 6 Sport
• 7 Technologies
  • 7.1 Computing and Internet
  • 7.2 Measurement
  • 7.3 Telecommunications
• 8 Transportation
• 9 Other uses
• 10 See also

Education

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

Entertainment

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 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

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

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

Sciences

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

Sport

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

Technologies

Computing and Internet

• Links (web browser), a visual Internet browser for Unix-like systems; primarily terminal-based, but there is a graphical variant
• Links (programming language), an application programming language for the web that presents an alternative to the usual three-tier architecture of web development.
• Hyperlink, 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
• <link /> or <a />, an HTML element

Measurement

• Link, a standard unit of 24 Hz (i.e., twenty-four cycles per second), basically measuring frames of animation.
• 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

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 uses

• Link (chain), a single segment of a chain
• Link River, a short river in Klamath Falls, Oregon, US
• Link, a single sausage, originally part of a chain
• A link is the numerical value 'linking' two dozen (12 + 12 = 24) of anything.
• Link, or linking col, a topographical feature used in determining topographic prominence
• 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
• 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

See also

• Linker (disambiguation)
• Language Integrated Query (LINQ, pronounced "link"), Microsoft .NET Framework component that adds native data querying capabilities to .NET languages
• Linc (disambiguation)
• Linx (disambiguation)
• Lynx (disambiguation)
• Microsoft Lync
• The Link (disambiguation)
• Missing Link

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