chain
Significado
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- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- A series of interconnected things.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A long measuring tape.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- 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).
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- The warp threads of a web.
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈt͡ʃeɪn/
Etimoloxía
From Middle English cheyne, chaine, from Old French chaine, chaene (“chain”), from Latin catēna (“chain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to braid, twist; hut, shed”). Doublet of catena.
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