The act or result of joining; a joint or juncture.
The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
A connection or relation between things or ideas.
A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
A mechanical device that connects things.
The property of genes of being inherited together.
A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.