Linker or linkers may refer to:
Computing
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Linker (computing)
A linker or link editor is a computer program that combines intermediate software build files such as object file, object and library (computing), library files into a single executable file such as a program or library. A linker is often part o ...
, a computer program that takes one or more object files generated by a compiler or generated by an assembler and links them with libraries, generating an executable program or shared library
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GNU linker
A linker or link editor is a computer program that combines intermediate software build files such as object and library files into a single executable file such as a program or library. A linker is often part of a toolchain that includes a comp ...
, the classic GNU Project's implementation of the Unix linker command
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Dynamic linker
In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed (at " run time"), by copying the content of libraries from persistent storage to RAM, fill ...
, the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries for an executable program at run time
People
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Amy Linker
Amy Meredith Linker (born October 19, 1966) is an American actor. She is best known for her starring role in the television sitcom ''Square Pegs'' (1982–1983).
Career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Linker's first major acting role was as Kelly ...
(born 1966), American actress
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Zita Linker
Zita Linker (; 1 March 1917 – 26 January 2009) was an Israeli politician who briefly served as a member of the Knesset for Likud in 1977.
Biography
Born in Vienna in Austria-Hungary, Linker attended high school in her home city, and university ...
(1917–2009), Israeli politician
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Eduard Linkers
Eduard Linkers (11 October 1912 – 3 April 2004) was an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1936 and 1988.
Life
He was born as Eduard Linker to a family of Jewish descent in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary. He studied act ...
(1912–2004), an Austrian actor
Biology
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Linker DNA
In molecular biology, linker DNA is double-stranded DNA (38-53 base pairs long) in between two nucleosome cores that, in association with histone H1, holds the cores together. Linker DNA is seen as the string in the "beads and string model", whic ...
, the part of a genomic DNA strand that connects two nucleosomes
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Polylinker
A multiple cloning site (MCS), also called a polylinker, is a short segment of DNA which contains many (up to ~20) restriction sites—a standard feature of engineered plasmids. Restriction sites within an MCS are typically unique, occurring onl ...
or multiple cloning site, a short segment of DNA with many restriction sites
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Signal transducing adaptor protein
Signal transducing adaptor proteins (STAPs) are proteins that are accessory to main proteins in a signal transduction pathway. Adaptor proteins contain a variety of protein-binding modules that link protein-binding partners together and facilitat ...
, proteins that provide mechanisms by which receptors can amplify and regulate downstream effector proteins
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Linker of activated T cells
The Linker for activation of T cells, also known as linker of activated T cells or LAT, is a protein involved in the T-cell antigen receptor signal transduction pathway which in humans is encoded by the ''LAT'' gene. Alternative splicing results ...
, a protein in the biochemical signaling path transferring signals from T cell antigen receptors
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B-cell linker
B-cell linker (BLNK) protein is expressed in B cells and macrophages and plays a large role in B cell receptor signaling. Like all adaptor proteins, BLNK has no known intrinsic enzymatic activity. Its function is to temporally and spatially coo ...
, a human gene that encodes a linker protein related to B cells
* Linker peptide, a flexible part of a
peptide
Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds. A polypeptide is a longer, continuous, unbranched peptide chain. Polypeptides that have a molecular mass of 10,000 Da or more are called proteins. Chains of fewer than twenty am ...
between relatively rigid
structural domains.
Other uses
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Inflation-indexed bond
Daily inflation-indexed bonds (also known as inflation-linked bonds or colloquially as linkers) are bonds where the principal is indexed to inflation or deflation on a daily basis. They are thus designed to hedge the inflation risk of a bond. T ...
or linker, bonds for which the principal is indexed to inflation
See also
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Link (disambiguation)
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