The difference between Connection and Link
When used as nouns, connection means the act of connecting, whereas link means a connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Link is also verb with the meaning: to connect two or more things.
check bellow for the other definitions of Connection and Link
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Connection as a noun (uncountable):
The act of connecting.
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Connection as a noun:
The point at which two or more things are connected.
Examples:
"the connection between overeating and obesity"
"My headache has no connection with me going out last night."
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Connection as a noun:
A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
Examples:
"As we were the only people in the room to laugh at the joke, I felt a connection between us."
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Connection as a noun:
An established communications or transportation link.
Examples:
"computers linked by a network connection"
"I was talking to him, but there was lightning and we lost the connection."
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Connection as a noun (transport):
A from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service
Examples:
"The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train."
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Connection as a noun:
A kinship relationship between people.
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Connection as a noun:
An individual who is related to oneself.
Examples:
"I have some connections in Lancashire."
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Connection as a noun:
A of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
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Connection as a noun:
; lack of disjointedness
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Link as a noun:
A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
Examples:
"The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media."
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Link as a noun:
One element of a chain or other connected series.
Examples:
"The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered."
"The weakest link."
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Link as a noun:
Examples:
"The link on the page points to the sports scores."
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Link as a noun (computing):
The connection between buses or systems.
Examples:
"A by-N-link is composed of N lanes."
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Link as a noun (mathematics):
A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
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Link as a noun (Sussex):
a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
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Link as a noun (figurative):
an individual person or element in a
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Link as a noun:
Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
Examples:
"a link of horsehair"
"rfquotek Mortimer"
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Link as a noun:
A sausage that is not a patty.
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Link as a noun (kinematics):
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link as a noun (engineering):
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link as a noun (surveying):
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
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Link as a noun (chemistry):
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link as a noun (plural):
The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To connect two or more things.
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Link as a verb (intransitive, of a Web page):
To contain a hyperlink to another page.
Examples:
"My homepage links to my wife's."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
Examples:
"Haven't you seen his Web site? I'll link you to it."
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Link as a verb (transitive, Internet):
To post a hyperlink to.
Examples:
"Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!"
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Link as a verb (transitive):
To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
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Link as a verb (compilation):
To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
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Link as a noun (obsolete):
A torch, used to light dark streets.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Link as a verb (Scotland, intransitive):
To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.