a connection between things, or a system of connected parts that move together.
From 'link' (connection) plus -age (suffix creating nouns). 'Link' comes from Old Norse 'hlenkr' meaning to join together.
In genetics, 'linkage' describes how genes physically sit next to each other on chromosomes, affecting evolution in ways scientists didn't understand until the 1900s.
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