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What does chain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chain? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
  2. A series of interconnected things.
  3. A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
  4. (chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
  5. (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
  6. (surveying) A long measuring tape.
  7. A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
  8. (mathematics) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
  9. (Britain) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
  10. That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
  11. (plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
  12. (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
  2. (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
  3. (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
  4. (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
  5. (figuratively) To obligate.
  6. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
  7. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
  8. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
  9. (computing) To load and automatically run (a program).
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