Dead Link N. [very Common] A World-Wide-Web URL That No Longer Points To The Information It Was Written To Reach.

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dead link n.

[very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no
longer points to the information it was written to reach. Usually
this happens because the document has been moved or deleted. Lots
of dead links make a WWW page frustrating and useless and are the
#1 sign of poor page maintainance. Compare dangling pointer,

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