A mechanical device that connects things. / A connection or relation between things or ideas.

plural of linkage

(advertising) The degree to which the consumer understands a commercial's message is for a specific brand of product rather than the product category.

An effect in which increased production by a downstream manufacturer provides positive pecuniary externalities to an upstream manufacturer responsible for different stages of the same production process.

(genetics) A non-random association of two or more alleles at two or more loci; normally caused by an interaction between genes, and often illustrated on a pairwise linkage disequilibrium diagram (HapMap)

(computing) The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of variables and constants passed to the program as parameters, either from JCL or from a calling program

plural of linkage section

plural of backward linkage

plural of brand linkage

(computing) A utility program that combines load modules (typically of subroutines) &c to produce an executable program