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Unlink vs Unkink - What's the difference?

unlink | unkink |

As verbs the difference between unlink and unkink

is that unlink is to decouple an item; to remove a link; to delink while unkink is to remove the kinks (from.

As a noun unlink

is a link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.

unlink

English

(wikipedia unlink)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To decouple an item; to remove a link; to delink.
  • (transitive, computing, Unix) To delete a file.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (math, knot theory) A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.

    • unkink

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the kinks (from)