linker

link +‎ -er (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Looking especially for the first uses of the software tool sense”)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkə/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)

linker (plural linkers)

1. That which links.

   Coordinate term: linkee

2. (software compilation) A computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
3. (genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
4. (grammar) A word or short expression that links clauses or other syntactic elements.
5. (finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.

• link editor

• linker DNA

linker (third-person singular simple present linkers, present participle linkering, simple past and past participle linkered)

1. (genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a linker.
   • 1994, Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:

     38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).

• Kerlin, klerin, relink

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋkər

linker (not comparable)

1. left

   Er zit een vlek op je linker broekspijp.

   There’s a spot on your left trouserleg.

• links

• rechter

linker

1. comparative degree of link

From Middle High German linc, lenc also: linkisch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋkɐ/
• Hyphenation: lin‧ker

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linker

1. inflection of link:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

• rechter