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A meridian is an oriented simple closed curve on the boundary of a knot exterior that bounds a disk in the removed tubular neighborhood and has linking number one with the knot.

Distinct components of the positively oriented torus link $T_{n,n}$ have linking number one. Since every component also has framing $+1$ relative to the Seifert framing, the surgery linking matrix and hence the intersection form of the surgery trace $W({\hat{L}}_1)$ areIts Smith normal form is $\mathrm{diag}(1,0,\dots ,0)$. The surgery exact sequence, equivalently the kernel and cokernel of $Q_1$, gives

In Kirby calculus, sliding the components over one chosen component diagonalizes the framed link to a split $+1$-framed unknot and $n-1$ zero-framed unknots. Hencewhere $♮$ denotes boundary connected sum.

The Seifert framing pushes a knot in the direction tangent to a Seifert surface and normal to its boundary. The knot and its push-off then have linking number zero.

The torus link $T_{p,q}$ lies on an unknotted torus and winds $p$ times meridionally and $q$ times longitudinally. It has $\gcd (p,q)$ components; distinct components of the positively oriented $T_{n,n}$ have linking number one.