Chair (disambiguation)

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The term chair has a number of possible meanings:

• Chair, piece of furniture
• Chair, type of carriage (such as chaise, gig or chariot), also called "riding chair"
• Electric chair, execution device often known as just "the chair"
• Orchestra, musician's seating position
• Chair (railway), a block, in the past supporting a rail on a sleeper
• Chair conformation, molecular structure of cyclohexane
• Chair (acrobatics), various balancing circus skills
• The Chair (game show), TV show hosted by John McEnroe
• The Chairs, play by Eugène Ionesco
• Chair (Skopje), municipality in Skopje, Macedonia
• The Chair: Rethinking Culture, Body and Design is a book by Galen Cranz about the piece of furniture
• Chair, a (generally plastic) spacer used in the construction industry to position reinforcing bars/mesh in the correct position before pouring concrete around them.
• Chair (academic department) - a division of a university faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline.

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• Chair (academic) - a professorship in a university.
• Chair (MC) - The "Master of Ceremonies" is referred to as the "Chair" in some organizations.
• Chairperson (Rival Schools) , known as Iincho (委員長, Iinchō^?) in Japan, is a character from the Rival Schools series of fighting games.
• Chair (official), or Chairman, the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body.