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Linker vs Priority - What's the difference?

linker | priority |

As nouns the difference between linker and priority

is that linker is that which links while priority is an item's relative importance.

As a verb linker

is (genetics) to ligate a dna segment using a.

linker

English

Noun

(wikipedia linker) (en noun)
  • That which links.
  • (computer science) a computer program that takes one or more objects generated by compilers and assembles them into a single executable program.
  • (genetics) A short oligonucleotide containing a recognition sequence for a restriction enzyme, used to blunt the ends of sticky DNA segments.
  • (grammar) A word that serves to link other elements.
  • (finance, informal) A linked bond, one for which the principal is indexed to inflation.

    • Synonyms

    * link editor

    Derived terms

    * linker DNA

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (genetics) To ligate a DNA segment using a .
  • * 1994 , Ray Shillito et al., "Zea mays plants regenerated from protoplasts or protoplast-derived cells", US Patent 5770450, page 52:
    • 38. The plasmid pRK252 Km is cut with ecoRI, blunt-ended using Klenow, and linkered with BgIII linkers (New England Biolabs).
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    priority

    English

    (wikipedia priority)

    Noun

    (priorities)
  • An item's relative importance.
    • He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
  • A goal of a person or an organisation.
    • She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
  • (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
  • *
    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
  • (obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 244:
    • Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.

    Derived terms

    * aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top priority