Usually means: Chemical bonds between polymer chains.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross-link: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross-link: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cross-link: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cross-link, cross-link: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cross-link: Vocabulary.com
  6. cross-link: Wordnik
  7. cross-link: Wiktionary
  8. cross-link: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cross-link: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cross-link: Dictionary.com
  11. Cross-link: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cross-link: Rhymezone
  13. cross-link: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cross-link: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cross-link: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cross-link: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cross-link: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cross-link: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cross-link)

noun:  (chemistry) A covalent bond (or series of bonds) between adjacent chains of a polymer
noun:  (biochemistry) A similar bond between strands of nucleic acid
noun:  (Internet) An internal hyperlink to another webpage belonging to the same web domain.
noun:  (loosely) A connection between data.
verb:  (chemistry) To join polymer chains together to form one single molecule. An object made from a crosslinked material contains only one supergiant molecule. Crosslinking may take place through covalent bonds or ionic bonds
verb:  (Internet) To add an internal hyperlink between two webpages belonging to the same web domain.
verb:  (loosely) To connect the references of a pool of data to each other.

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