A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
He wore a gold chain around the neck.
A series of interconnected things.
This led to an unfortunate chain of events.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
That chain of restaurants is expanding into our town.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
When examined, the molecular chain included oxygen and hydrogen.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A long measuring tape.
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.
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
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.
the chains of habit
(in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
The warp threads of a web.
The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
The water coming out of the waterwheel created a standing wave in the channel.
The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
The navigable part of a river.
We were careful to keep our boat in the channel.
A narrow body of water between two land masses.
The English Channel lies between France and England.
Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
The news was conveyed to us by different channels.
A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
The guard-rail provided the channel between the downed wire and the tree.
The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
(communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
A channel stretches between them.
(communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
We are using one of the 24 channels.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
The channel is created by bonding the signals from these four pairs.
(communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
Their call is being carried on channel 6 of the T-1 line.
A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
KNDD is the channel at 107.7 MHz in Seattle.
A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
NBC is on channel 11 in San Jose.
(storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
This chip in this disk drive is the channel device.
(technic) The way in a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
The liquid is pressurized in the lateral channel.
A distribution channel
A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
An obsolete means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.