linkage 的詞源

"聯結系統"，1874年，最初用於機械工程，源自 link（動詞）+ -age。

To understand the principle of Peaucellier's link-work, it is convenient to consider previously certain properties of a linkage, (to coin a new and useful word of general application), consisting of an arrangement of six links, obtained in the following manner ... (etc.). ["Recent Discoveries in Mechanical Conservation of Motion," in "Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine," vol. xi, July-December 1874]

爲了理解 Peaucellier 的連桿機構的原理，方便起見，先考慮一個由六個連桿組成的連桿機構的某些特性（創造一個新的、有用的通用詞），該連桿機構是通過以下方式獲得的...（等等）。["Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine"，第11卷，1874年7月至12月，"機械運動守恆的最新發現"]