interlink

[ verb in-ter-lingk, in-ter-lingk; noun in-ter-lingk ]

verb (used with object)

1. to link, one with another.

noun

1. a connecting link.

Other Words From

• unin·ter·linked adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of interlink¹

First recorded in 1580–90; inter- + link ¹

Example Sentences

The United Nations have introduced the term "triple planetary crisis" to describe the interlinked global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution.

From Science Daily

With searing observations and profound honesty, she gives voice to the distress that many of us have quietly felt across so many interlinking aspects of our lives.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was about stripping people of their humanity. It was an essential element of the dehumanization. Isolation, transport, theft and murder: Those are all interlinked parts of the Holocaust.”

From New York Times

"But here, we have two separate yet interlinked groups of genes. Some expressed in trichomes, and some expressed in roots."

From Science Daily

What begins as a case of “outing” becomes a much more complex consideration of the ways in which different oppressions are all interlinked, making freedom a fight for all of us.

From New York Times

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