Linkage may refer to: * ''Linkage'' (album), by J-pop singer Mami Kawada, released in 2010 *

Linkage (graph theory) Linkage may refer to: * ''Linkage'' (album), by J-pop singer Mami Kawada, released in 2010 * Linkage (graph theory), the maximum min-degree of any of its subgraphs * Linkage (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Linkage (hierarchical clust ...

, the maximum min-degree of any of its subgraphs *

Linkage (horse) Linkage (born in 1979 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred Horse racing, racehorse he was the son of Hoist the Flag and grandson to Tom Rolfe. Linkage will be best remembered for winning the 1982 Blue Grass Stakes and placing second five week ...

, an American Thoroughbred racehorse * Linkage (hierarchical clustering), The linkage criterion determines the distance between sets of observations as a function of the pairwise distances between observations *

Linkage (linguistics) In historical linguistics, a linkage is a network of related dialects or languages that formed from a gradual diffusion and differentiation of a proto-language. The term was introduced by Malcolm Ross in his study of Western Oceanic languages ...

, a set of languages descended from a former dialect continuum * Linkage (mechanical), assemblies of links designed to manage forces and movement *

Linkage (policy) Linkage was a foreign policy that was pursued by the United States and championed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s détente, during the Cold War. The policy aimed to persuade the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions ...

, a Cold War policy of the United States of America towards the Soviet Union and Communist China *

Linkage (software) In programming languages, particularly the compiled ones like C, C++, and D, linkage describes how names can or can not refer to the same entity throughout the whole program or one single translation unit. The static keyword is used in C to re ...

, a concept in computer programming *

Genetic linkage Genetic linkage is the tendency of DNA sequences that are close together on a chromosome to be inherited together during the meiosis phase of sexual reproduction. Two genetic markers that are physically near to each other are unlikely to be separ ...

, the tendency of certain genes to be inherited together * Glycosidic linkage, a type of covalent bond that joins a carbohydrate (sugar) molecule to another chemical group *

Flux linkage In circuit theory, flux linkage is a property of a two-terminal element. It is an extension rather than an equivalent of magnetic flux and is defined as a time integral :\lambda = \int \mathcal \,dt, where \mathcal is the voltage across the dev ...

, the total flux passing through a surface formed by a closed conducting loop

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