Bond
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Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:
[edit] Fiduciary bonds
- Bond (finance), in finance, a debt security, issued by Issuer
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
- Government bond register, a register of bonds issued by a national government, such as the Canadian Government Bond Register
- Bond market, a financial market for bonds
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
- Insurance bond (or investment bond), a life assurance-based single premium investment
- Surety bond, a three party contract, where the surety promises to pay the obligee for non-performance or dishonesty by the principal
- Performance bond, a surety bond for completion of work under a contract
- Bail bond, a surety bond for return of a person to a court
- Tenancy bond (or damage deposit), a deposit taken by a landlord in relation to rental of a property
- Catastrophe bond (or cat bond), a form of reinsurance
- Bonded labor (or debt bondage), a system of servitude where someone must work to pay off a debt
[edit] Physical sciences
- Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
- Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
- Bond albedo, a measure of electromagnetic radiation of an astronomical body
- Bond graph, a graphical description of a physical dynamic system
- The Bond (Chinese constellation), both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion
[edit] Social sciences
- Pair bond, in biology, the strong affinity that develops in some species between the male and female in a breeding pair, or, sometimes, between individuals of the same sex
- Psychological bond, a form of relationship
- Forms of an acephalous society in anthropology:
[edit] Manufacturing, construction and electronics
- In manufacturing, bonding may be done via adhesives, welding, or fasteners (such as screws, bolts, nails, rivets)
- Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
- Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper
- Bonded Leather (or reconstituted leather)
- Bottled in bond, referring to a type American whiskey
- Wire bonding, a method of making interconnections between a microchip and the outside world as part of semiconductor device fabrication
- Channel bonding (or modem bonding), an arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined
- Electrical bonding, concept in electricity distribution
[edit] Company and product names
- Bonds (clothing), an Australian clothing company
- Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Norwich, England, now called John Lewis Norwich
- Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford
- Bond Cars Ltd, a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971:
- BOND, RAD software tool
- Gold Bond medicated powder
- Bond Street (cigarette), brand of cigarette
- Eaton's Corrasable Bond, a former brand of erasable typing paper
- The Bond Electraglide electric guitar, manufactured by Bond Guitars
[edit] Organizations
- Afrikaner Bond, a political party in the Cape Colony in the 19th century
- bonding-studenteninitiative e.V., a German student organisation
- Church of the Universal Bond, a British religious group
- The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) - Created By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.
[edit] Entertainment
- James Bond, a fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming
- Bond (band), an Australian/British string quartet
- The Bond, a film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds
- "The Bonding", a third-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Any Bonds Today?, a propaganda film for War bonds during World War II
[edit] Places
- Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London
- Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Bond South Africa, South African campus of Bond University
- Bond Head, Ontario, Canada
- Bonds, Lancashire, an English village
- United States
- Bond, Colorado
- Bond County, Illinois
- Bond Hill, Ohio
- Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan
- Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire
[edit] People
- Oliver Bond (died 1797), Irish revolutionary
- William Cranch Bond (1789 – 1859), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond (below)
- William K. Bond (1792 – 1864), American politician
- Edward August Bond (1813 – 1898), English scientist
- George Phillips Bond (1825 – 1865), American astronomer, son of William Cranch Bond (above)
- James Bond (1900 - 1989), American ornithologist
- Michael Bond (born 1926), English children's author
- Kit Bond (born 1939), senior United States Senator of Missouri and member of the Republican Party
- Bobby Bonds (1946 – 2003), American baseball athlete, father of Barry Bonds (below)
- Samantha Bond (born 1961), British actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies
- Barry Bonds (born 1964), American baseball athlete, son of Bobby Bonds (above)
- Julia Bond (born 1987), American porn star
[edit] Other uses
- Peace-bonding, something which makes a weapon unusable as a weapon
- Peace bond, a protection order from a Canadian court
[edit] See also
[edit] External Links
- Surety Bond Q & A - An online association of bond professionals.
- Treasury Listing - List of federally licensed bonding companies approved by the US Treasury.