broken link

collocation in English

meaningsofbrokenandlink

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broken
adjective
uk
/ˈbrəʊ.kən/us
/ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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link
noun[C]
uk
/lɪŋk/us
/lɪŋk/
a connection between two people, things, ...
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(Definition ofbrokenandlinkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbroken link

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We are talking here of abrokenlinkin the transport chain.
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Police immediately viewed this as potential evidence and saved the two pieces ofbrokenlink.
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In case of a permanentlybrokenlink, the retransmission has no effect so the number of retransmissions is limited.
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The cost of abrokenlinkis infinity.
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The disadvantage of this protocol is that the route maintenance mechanism does not locally repair abrokenlink.
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Tests using the bolt cutter to cut other pieces of metal showed it produced identical microscopic markings to thebrokenlink.
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Thebrokenlinkproved to be the most important piece of physical evidence in the case.
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A link that does not work any more is called abrokenlink, dead link, or dangling link.
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Find any broken links in the content or content resources.
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The site does not appear to be significantly updated since 2008, and has many broken links and display issues.
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To return home, they have been forced to jump from reality to reality, repairing the broken links in the chain of time.
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The abridgements are sloppy, sometimes leaving broken links, or sections referring the reader to an incorrect new section.
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A software program can periodically check to see if a website is down, if there are broken links or if errors have occurred on particular pages.
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Furthermore, it has been claimed that the package management index could never become unsynchronized with the filesystem, because references to nonexistent files simply become broken links, and thus become inactive.
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The program follows links to other pages, and checks the links on those pages also, so it is possible to check an entire site for broken links in one session.
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