A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
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.
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
A long measuring tape.
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).
A livery collar, a chain of office.
The warp threads of a web.
A series of interconnected things.
To link multiple items together.
To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
To obligate.
To fasten something with a chain.
To secure someone with fetters.
To load and automatically run (a program).
To be chained to another data item.
A commercial organization.
A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
An air force formation.
A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
A subset of a culture or of a society.
A functional group.
A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
A collection of formations or rock strata.
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
To come together to form a group.
To put together to form a group.