backlink
verbEtymology From back + link.
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Internet To link in this fashion.
backlink
nounEtymology From back + link.
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Internet A hyperlink to a webpage from an external website.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A reference to an object on another server, allowing it to be updated periodically.
- As mentioned, the major downside to using backlinks is that they are tied to a specific NetWare server and not tied to the external reference objects location in the NDS tree.2002, Jeffrey F. Hughes, Blair W. Thomas, Novell's Guide to NetWare 6 Networks, page 467:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A link to another page that links to the current one, often in an automatically assembled list of links to all other such pages, allowing for bidirectional navigation.