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cross-link

noun

Etymology

From cross- + link.

  1. inherited from *kleng-✻
  2. inherited from *hlankaz✻ — “bendsome, flexible”
  3. inherited from *hlankiz✻
  4. derived from *hlenkr✻
  5. inherited from hlenċe
  6. inherited from linke
  7. formed as cross-link — “cross- + link”

Definitions

  1. A covalent bond (or series of bonds) between adjacent chains of a polymer

  2. A similar bond between strands of nucleic acid

  3. An internal hyperlink to another webpage belonging to the same web domain.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A connection between data.

    2. To join polymer chains together to form one single molecule. An object made from a…

      To join polymer chains together to form one single molecule. An object made from a crosslinked material contains only one supergiant molecule. Crosslinking may take place through covalent bonds or ionic bonds

    3. To add an internal hyperlink between two webpages belonging to the same web domain.

    4. To connect the references of a pool of data to each other.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cross-link. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA