MEANING
1. A connection between things, or a process that joins them together.
2. A system of connected mechanical parts that transmits or constrains movement.
3. The tendency of genes on the same chromosome to be inherited together rather than independently.
Use it for
identifying a connection without assuming causation; analyzing relationships between institutions or processes; describing negotiation that makes agreement on one issue depend on anotherDescribes connectedness while keeping causal proof, mechanical connection and shared inheritance distinct. Academic functions: Causation / Relationships.
Words that belong together
- institutional linkages
- a linkage between markets
- issue linkage
On the page
The analysis identifies a linkage between housing and employment without claiming that the observed association proves causation.
Issue linkage made progress on trade dependent on agreement over the separate environmental question.
The engineering account traces movement through the linkage rather than treating each part in isolation.
A failure in the linkage interrupted the transfer of motion even though the motor remained functional.
The explanation uses genetic linkage to show why the inheritance of two traits need not be independent.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- linkage
Usage notes
Countable or uncountable: linkage, linkages. Linkage between/among + entities; linkage of + connected elements. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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