A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas
A unit of surveying measurement When Kansas was originally surveyed the method of measurement was with a 66 foot "chain" divided into 100 links Can also be the procedure of measuring a line using a calibrated steel tape today
An operation repeated in a sequence, such that each result depends upon the previous result, or an initial value One example is the CBC operating mode
A measurement of horizontal distance, 66 feet Areas expressed in square chains can immediately be converted to acres by dividing by 10
Some computer devices support chaining, the ability to string multiple devices in a sequence plugged into just one computer port Often, but not always, such a chain will require some sort of terminator to mark the end For an example, a SCSI scanner may be plugged into a SCSI CD-ROM drive that is plugged into a SCSI hard drive that is in turn plugged into the main computer For all these components to work properly, the scanner would also have to have a proper terminator in use Device chaining has been around a long time, and it is interesting to note that C64/128 serial devices supported it from the very beginning Today the most common low-cost chainable devices in use support USB while the fastest low-cost chainable devices in use support FireWire
a measuring tape, 50 m or 75 m in length, used to measure distances This term is derived from an old unit of measurement: (80 Ch=1 mile)
Unit of length equal to 66 feet, used especially in the U S public land surveys The original measuring instrument (Gunter's chain) was literally a chain consisting of 100 iron links, each 7 92 inches long Steel-ribbon tapes began to supersede chains around 1900, but surveying tapes are often still called "chains" and measuring with a tape is often called "chaining " The chain is a convenient unit in cadastral surveys because 10 square chains equal 1 acre
A non-metric measure of distance common to land surveying, forestry and fire management One chain equals 66 feet
A chain consists of metal rings connected together in a line. His open shirt revealed a fat gold chain The dogs were leaping and growling at the full stretch of their chains
A learned sequence of behaviors that are usually performed in the same order; all behaviors tend to be performed once the first behavior in the chain is completed Getting dressed in the morning is an example
a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"