link

Definition

The digital equivalent of a handshake between web pages—click me and I'll teleport you somewhere else on the internet. The glue holding the world wide web together since 1989.

Example Usage

The marketing campaign included a link to the landing page in every email to drive traffic.

Source: Web development and internet terminology

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gain

In electronics and audio, the amount by which a signal is amplified—turn it up too much and you get distortion, too little and nobody hears anything. In business, it's profit or advantage, the thing everyone's chasing in quarterly reports. In fitness, it's what bros discuss regarding muscle mass, as in 'making gains.'

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In software development, the sacred primary repository where the "official" version of code lives, before ambitious developers fork it into a thousand experimental directions. In aviation, it's the actual airline doing the flying, as opposed to their sketchy regional partners. The verb form means injecting drugs directly into your veins, but let's focus on the tech definition.

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