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Link Wray
Link Wray (Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr., 1929–2005) was a Shawnee-heritage American rock guitarist from Dunn, North Carolina, whose 1958 instrumental "Rumble" pioneered power chords and deliberate amp distortion, was banned by US radio, and led to his 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
Link-local address
A link-local address is an IP address valid only on a single network link and never forwarded by routers, such as IPv6's FE80::/10 or IPv4's 169.254/16.
Link-state routing protocol
A link-state routing protocol is an interior gateway protocol in which every router shares its local connection state, builds an identical topology database, and computes shortest paths; OSPF and IS-IS are the standard examples.
Link: Eat, Love, Kill
Link: Eat, Love, Kill (링크: 먹고 사랑하라, 죽이게) is a 2022 tvN emotion-sharing fantasy mystery romance, 16 episodes, starring Yeo Jin-goo and Moon Ga-young, streamed on Disney+ and later Hulu.
Linkage (mechanical)
A mechanical linkage is an assembly of rigid links connected by joints so a prescribed input motion produces a desired output motion, as in the four-bar linkage.
Linkage disequilibrium
Linkage disequilibrium (LD), nonrandom association of alleles at different loci, measured by D, D′, and r² (Hill and Robertson 1968); decays with recombination as 1/(1+4Nec) and underlies GWAS tag SNPs, selection detection, and effective population size estimation.
Linkage mapping
Linkage mapping is a genetics method that locates genes and quantitative trait loci on chromosomes by tracking how often traits and genetic markers are inherited together, measured in centimorgans.
LinkDoc Technology
LinkDoc Technology (零氪科技) is a Beijing-based medical big-data and artificial intelligence company focused on oncology, founded in December 2014, known as the first company to withdraw a US IPO after China's 2021 data-security crackdown.
LinkDoc零氪科技
LinkDoc零氪科技 (LinkDoc Technology) is a Chinese oncology big-data and real-world-evidence company founded in Beijing in 2014 by Zhang Tianze, which became China's first medical big-data unicorn before withdrawing a planned 2021 Nasdaq IPO.
Linke turbidity factor
The Linke turbidity factor is a broadband measure of atmospheric turbidity, introduced by Linke in 1922, ranging from 1 in clean air to about 8 in polluted air.
Linke-Hofmann
Linke-Hofmann, later Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB), was a German rolling stock manufacturer founded in Breslau in 1839 that became one of Europe's largest wagon builders and was absorbed by Alstom in the 1990s.
Linked color imaging
Linked color imaging (LCI) is a Fujifilm endoscopy mode that amplifies reds and whites to increase color contrast, detecting early gastric cancers and colon adenomas better than white light.
Linked data
Linked data is a set of best practices for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web using RDF and SPARQL, from Tim Berners-Lee's four principles of 2006.
Linked list
A linked list is a linear data structure whose nodes hold values and pointers to neighboring nodes, developed in 1955 by Newell, Shaw, and Simon.
Linked Store Cayman Ltd.
Linked Store Cayman Ltd. is a Grand Cayman–incorporated company that raised private equity in the United States through SEC Form D offerings between 2017 and 2021.
Linked-read sequencing
Linked-read sequencing is a genomics method that attaches the same barcode to all short reads from a single long DNA molecule, letting standard short-read sequencing reconstruct haplotypes and structural variants.
LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking platform launched in May 2003 and acquired by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 billion, with 1.2 billion members.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com, is an online education platform owned by Microsoft through LinkedIn that offers self-paced video courses in business, technology, and creative skills by subscription.
Linker (computing)
A linker, or link editor, is a system program that combines separately compiled object files into an executable or shared library, resolving symbolic references between them.
Linker for activation of T-cells family member 2
LAT2, also called NTAL or LAB, is a 25-30 kDa lipid-raft transmembrane adaptor protein on chromosome 7q11.23 that scaffolds immune receptor signaling in B cells, mast cells, NK cells, and monocytes; distinct from the SLC7A8 amino acid transporter that shares the LAT2 alias.
Linkerd
Linkerd is an open source service mesh for Kubernetes, created by Buoyant in 2016 and the first service mesh to graduate from the CNCF, in July 2021.
Linkin Park
Linkin Park (also Xero, Hybrid Theory): American rock band formed 1996 in Agoura Hills, California, blending nu metal, rap-rock, and electronics. Diamond-certified debut Hybrid Theory (2000), over 100 million records sold, five Billboard 200 #1 debuts; returned in 2024 with Emily Armstrong and From Zero.
Linkin Park discography
Linkin Park discography: eight studio albums from Hybrid Theory (2000) to From Zero (2024), plus Reanimation, Collision Course, Recharged, live and compilation releases; 100 million records sold, RIAA Diamond debut, five Billboard 200 #1s.
Linking high-harmonic generation from gases and solids
Linking high-harmonic generation from gases and solids refers to a 2015 experiment showing that high harmonics from zinc oxide crystals arise from electron-hole recollision, the solid analog of gas-phase HHG.
Linking number
The linking number is an integer invariant in knot theory that counts, with sign, how many times one closed curve winds around another; Gauss introduced it in 1833.
Linking of the Great Wall
The Linking of the Great Wall (万里长城之连接) was the Qin dynasty project under General Meng Tian that joined the northern walls of Qin, Zhao, and Yan into one continuous frontier line.
Linklaters
Linklaters is a global law firm founded in London in 1838, now a limited liability partnership with 30 offices in 20 countries, about 550 partners, £2.5 billion fiscal 2026 revenue, and leadership under Aedamar Comiskey and Paul Lewis.
Linklogis (联易融科技)
Linklogis (联易融科技) is a Shenzhen-based supply chain finance technology company founded in 2016, listed in Hong Kong since 2021, and ranked first among China's third-party providers since 2020.
Linköping
Linköping, Swedish city in Östergötland, seat of Sweden's fifth largest municipality (~168,000). First recorded 1104 as Liunga Kauping; town rights 1287; cathedral from the 1230s; Linköping University founded 1975; Saab aviation hub since 1937.
Linkou power station
Linkou power station is the coal-fired generating facility at Linkou, Heilongjiang, China; its operating plant is the 50 MW Linkou Shengye Cogen station, started in 2019.