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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.

The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.

The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.

“Mom drove my sister and I to school.”