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   Chain

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   noun

   • 1. a connected flexible series of metal links used for fastening or securing objects and pulling or supporting loads: "he slid the bolts on the front door and put the safety chain across" Similar fettersshacklesbondsironsleg ironsmanacleshandcuffsinformal:cuffsbraceletsarchaic:trammelsgyvesdarbiesbilboes
   • ▪ a series of decorative metal links worn as a decoration; a necklace: "a tall man with a heavy gold chain around his neck"
   • ▪ short for snow chains
   • ▪ a force or factor that binds or restricts someone: "the chains of illness"
   • 2. a sequence of items of the same type forming a line: "he kept the chain of buckets supplied with water" Similar seriessuccessionstringsequencetraintrailrunpatternprogressioncoursesetlinerowconcatenation
   • ▪ a sequence or series of connected elements: "a chain of events"
   • ▪ a range of mountains: "a chain of volcanic ridges"
   • ▪ a group of establishments, such as hotels, stores, or restaurants, owned by the same company: "a chain restaurant" Similar groupmultiple shop/storemultiplefirmcompany
   • ▪ a part of a molecule consisting of a number of atoms (typically carbon) bonded together in a linear sequence.
   • ▪ a figure in a quadrille or similar dance, in which dancers meet and pass each other in a continuous sequence.
   • 3. a jointed measuring line consisting of linked metal rods.
   • ▪ a measure of length equivalent to a chain (66 ft.).
   • ▪ a measuring chain of ten yards, used in the determination of first downs.
   • 4. a structure of planks projecting horizontally from a sailing ship's sides abreast of the masts, used to widen the basis for the shrouds.

   verb

   • 1. fasten or secure with a chain: "she chained her bicycle to the railing"
   • ▪ confine with a chain: "he had been chained up"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French chaine, chaeine, from Latin catena ‘a chain’.

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   • a series of connected links, usu. made of metal, used for attaching, pulling, binding, or ornamentation. The prisoners were connected to each other by chains. She put the dog outside on his chain. He wore a gold chain around his neck. something that confines or restrains. He felt his dreary job was a chain around his neck.

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   • Within computer science, a use-definition chain (or UD chain) is a data structure that consists of a use U, of a variable, and all the definitions D of that variable that can reach that use without any other intervening definitions. A UD Chain generally means the assignment of some value to a variable.

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   1 [countable, uncountable] a series of connected metal rings, used for pulling or fastening things; a length of chain used for a particular purpose a short length of chain She wore a heavy gold chain around her neck. a bicycle chain The prisoners were kept in chains (= with chains around their arms and legs, to prevent them from escaping). see key chain

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   From Longman Business Dictionary chain /tʃeɪn/ noun [ countable] 1 a number of shops, hotels, cinemas etc owned or managed by the same company or person Britain’s leading supermarket chain chain of a chain of travel agents. 2 a series of people or organizations involved in different stages of the same activity → distribution chain → ...

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   If any part of the chain of infection is broken, the spread of the disease will be stopped. the complex chain of events that led to the war; Middlemen are important links in the chain. There has been an unbroken chain of great violinists in the family. The people formed a human chain to pass the supplies up the beach. a chain of volcanic islands

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   Use-define chain. Within computer science, a use-definition chain (or UD chain) is a data structure that consists of a use U, of a variable, and all the definitions D of that variable that can reach that use without any other intervening definitions. [1] [2] A UD Chain generally means the assignment of some value to a variable.

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   A chain of mountains stretched across the state.There has been a chain of robberies in the city. synonyms: progression, sequence, series, string similar words: concatenation, course, cycle, range, set, succession, train: definition 4: a series of like business establishments owned by one person or company.