Bond

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A bond is something that fastens things together.

Bond can also mean:

• Bond (finance), in finance, a debt security
• Investment bond, a life assurance based single premium investment
• Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
• Surety bond
• Psychological bond, a form of relationship
• Bail bond
• Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
• bond (band) is an Australian/British string quartet
• Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
• Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper
• BOND, RAD Software tool

People named Bond:

• Alan Bond (businessman), an Australian business man
• James Bond, a fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming
• James Bond (ornithologist) (1900–1989), whose name Fleming borrowed for his protagonist
  • Other people named James Bond (disambiguation)
• Jennie Bond, the former BBC royal correspondant
• Julian Bond, an African-American civil rights activist
• Kit Bond, a former governor and U.S. Senator of Missouri
• Michael Bond, creator of Paddington Bear
• Nigel Bond, snooker player
• Ruskin Bond (1934– ), an Anglo-Indian author
• Samantha Bond, actress best known as Miss Moneypenny in Bond films
• Tommy Bond (1856-1941), Irish baseball player
• Tommy Bond (1926-2005), American actor
• William Cranch Bond, first director of the Harvard College Observatory

Places named Bond:

• Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London
• Bond Cars Ltd, a long-defunct British car company famous for making eccentric three wheeled cars
• Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
• Bonds in New York City
• Bond, Colorado

[edit] See also

• Bonds
• Bondage
• Bonding