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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

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. Equal to 4 rods. Equal to 100 links.
8. (mathematics, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
9. (British) 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. (nautical, in the 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.

Verbit

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. (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
6. (computing) To be chained to another data item.
7. (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
8. (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).