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Webster 1913 Edition


Unlink

Un-link′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
link
.]
To separate or undo, as links; to uncoil; to unfasten.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unlink

UNLINK'

,
Verb.
T.
To separate links; to loose; to unfasten: to untwist.

Definition 2024


unlink

unlink

English

Verb

unlink (third-person singular simple present unlinks, present participle unlinking, simple past and past participle unlinked)

  1. (transitive) To decouple; to remove a link from.
  2. (transitive, computing, Unix) To delete (a file).

Translations

Noun

unlink (plural unlinks)

  1. (mathematics, knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.