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
  • 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

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United States

[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

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