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chain | a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament | ||
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chain | [in commercial_enterprise] a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership | ||
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chain | a unit of length | ||
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chain | connect or arrange into a chain by linking | ||
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chain | fasten or secure with chains | ||
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strand, string, chain | a necklace made by a stringing objects together | ||
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chain | a linked or connected series of objects | ||
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chain, chemical chain | [in chemistry] a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) | ||
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range, chain, mountain range, range of mountains, mountain chain, chain of mountains | a series of hills or mountains | ||
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chain, concatenation | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together | ||
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chain | anything that acts as a restraint | ||
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Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain | British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979) |