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What is a missing link?

What is a missing link? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (colloquial) A hypothetical primate once thought necessary to explain a perceived evolutionary gap between apes and humans.
  2. (figuratively) Any sought-after or valuable intermediary figure or position.
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There is just a missing link at the moment which is the statute that provides for the conviction.
Integration of these two data sets could provide a missing link in our understanding of the transition from aseismic to seismogenic plate motion.
This deprivation of culture, of identity, is the missing link in Africa's development equation.
Nonetheless, they provided the missing link that connected a flailing Wild West show tradition with the Western movie industry.
The missing link in Kay's polemical acknowledgment of the importance of geography in globalization, however, is what constitutes this importance.
A dinosaur-dotty mum, who helped discover a missing link in our past, has been causing a real flutter in the scientific world.

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