A link has two ends — called anchors — and a direction. The link starts at the “source” anchor and points to the “destination” anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).
Source from World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3C)
https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html#h-12.1