Other forms: linkages
A linkage is a connection between two things. A clear linkage, the linkage between them, mechanical linkage.
In engineering it is a real assembly of rods and joints that turns one movement into another, as in a windscreen wiper. In argument it means a claimed connection, and asking what the linkage is is a polite way of doubting it.
1nounlinkageA connection between two things.
“Researchers found a linkage between poor sleep and weight gain.”
linkage is a connection.
Also accepted in games: link
Proto-Germanic
*hlankiz — ring; bond; fettle; fetter
Old Norse
*hlenkr
Old English
hlenċe
Middle English
linke
English
link
English, today
linkage
Built from
From link + -age. link comes from Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European kleng-, klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank. 2 Cognate with Low German Lenk (“link”), Danish lænke (“chain; link”), ovd lekk (“link”), Icelandic hlekkur (“link”), Norwegian Bokmål lenke (“chain; link”), Norwegian Nynorsk lenke, lenkje (“chain; link”), Swedish länk (“chain; link”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA