"linking element" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "linking elements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "linking element (plural linking elements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Linguistics",
          "orig": "en:Linguistics",
          "parents": [
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Christopher Beedham, German Linguistics: An Introduction",
          "text": "Many compounds require a linking element or interfix between the parts. Common interfixes are -s, -es, -n, -en, -e."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds."
      ],
      "id": "en-linking_element-en-noun-TA86Bp0X",
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "interfix"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "element of morphological analysis",
          "word": "Fugenelement"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "linking element"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "linking elements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "linking element (plural linking elements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "interfix"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Christopher Beedham, German Linguistics: An Introduction",
          "text": "Many compounds require a linking element or interfix between the parts. Common interfixes are -s, -es, -n, -en, -e."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "element of morphological analysis",
      "word": "Fugenelement"
    }
  ],
  "word": "linking element"
}