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  1. Linkage
    [software] In programming languages, particularly C++, 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 restrict the visibility of a function or variable to its translation unit...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkage_(software)

  2. Linkage
    [mechanics] This category contains articles related to the flora of the Cayman Islands. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. This category follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkage_(mechanics)

  3. Linkage
    [linguistics] In linguistics, a linkage is a group of undoubtedly related languages for which no proto-language can be reconstructed. Malcolm Ross, who coined the term, defined it as “a group of communalects which have arisen by dialect differentiation” {harv|Ross|1988|p=8}. Common to li...
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  4. Linkage
    The frequency of coinheritance of a pair of genes and/or genetic markers, which provides a measure of their physical proximity to one another on a chromosome.
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  5. linkage
    [n] - an associative relation 2. [n] - (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes 3. [n] - a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion 4. [n] - the act of linking things together
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  6. Linkage
    Linkage: The tendency for genes and other genetic markers to be inherited together because of their location near one another on the same chromosome. A gene is a functional physical unit of heredity that can be passed from parent to child. All genes in humans are pieces of DNA. Most genes contain in...
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  7. linkage
    Tendency for certain genes tend to be inherited together, because they are on the same chromosome. Thus parental combinations of characters are found more frequently in offspring than non-parental. Linkage is measured by the percentage recombination between loci.
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  8. Linkage
    Link'age (lĭnk'aj; 48) noun 1. The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links. 2. (Chemistry) Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union of atoms or radicals in the molecule. 3.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/46

  9. linkage
    <genetics> Tendency for two or more non-allelic genes to be inherited together, because they are located more or less closely on the same chromosome. ... Thus parental combinations of characters are found more frequently in offspring than nonparental. Linkage is measured by the percentage rec...
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  10. linkage
    gene linkage noun (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they a...
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  11. linkage
    noun the act of linking things together
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  12. linkage
    noun a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
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  1. linkage
    noun an associative relation
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  2. linkage
    (lingk´әj) the connection between different atoms in a chemical compound, or the symbol representing it in structural formulas; see also bond. in genetics, the association of genes having loci on the same chromosome, which results in the tendency of a group of such nonallelic genes to be asso...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  3. Linkage
    • (n.) The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links. • (n.) A system of straight lines or bars, fastened together by joints, and having certain of their points fixed in a plane. It is used to describe straight lines and curves in the plane. • (n.) Manner of l...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/linkage/

  4. linkage
    (from the article `international relations`) ...method of containing Communist power through diplomatic accords and a flexible system of rewards and punishments by which Washington might ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/l/55

  5. linkage
    in mechanical engineering, a system of solid, usually metallic, links (bars) connected to two or more other links by pin joints (hinges), sliding ...
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  6. Linkage
    See forward linkage and backward linkage.
    Found op http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/l.html

  7. Linkage
    [policy] Linkage was a policy pursued by the United States of America, championed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, during the 1970s period of Cold War Détente which aimed to persuade the Soviet Union and Communist China to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in ret...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkage_(policy)

  8. Linkage
    [mechanical] A mechanical linkage is an assembly of bodies connected together to manage forces and movement. The movement of a body, or link, is studied using geometry so the link is considered to be rigid. The connections between links are modeled as providing ideal movement, pure rotation ...
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  9. Linkage
    Linkage generally means "the manner or style of being united", and can refer to: ...
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  10. linkage
    The proximity of two or more markers (e.g., genes, RFLP markers) on a chromosome; the closer together the markers are, the lower the probability that they will be separated during DNA repair or replication processes (binary fission in prokaryotes, mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotes), and hence the gre...
    Found op http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/glossary/genetics.html

  11. linkage
    1. an associative relation
    2. (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes
    3. a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
    4. the act of linking things together

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  12. Linkage
    The proximity of two or more markers (e.g., genes, RFLP markers) on a chromosome; the closer the markers, the lower the probability that they will be separated during DNA repair or replication processes (binary fission in prokaryotes, mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotes), and hence the greater the prob...
    Found op http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/glossary/glossary.shtml

  13. linkage
    The association of genes and/or markers that lie near each other on a chromosome. Linked genes and markers tend to be inherited together
    Found op http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/linkage.html

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