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.
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
One that merges.
The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.