Bond
Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:
- Peace-bonding, something which makes a weapon unusable as a weapon
Fiduciary
- Bond (finance), in finance, a type of debt security
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
- War bonds, a type of government bond used to raise funding for a war effort
- Municipal bond, a bond issued by a city or local government
- Corporate bond, a bond issued by a corporation
- Mortgage bond, in South Africa a bond or mortgage bond is the usual term for property mortgage.
- 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 agent, or bail bondsman, a person or corporation providing 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
- Bond of association, a basic building block of credit unions and co-operative banks
- Bond vigilante, a form of political protest by selling bonds
Judiciary
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 the electromagnetic radiation reflected from an astronomical body
- Bond graph, a graphical description of a physical dynamic system
- Bond fluctuation model, a lattice model for simulating the conformation and dynamics of polymer systems
- The Bond (Chinese constellation), both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion
- Bond Crater, a crater on Mars
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
Anthropology
Manufacturing, construction and electronics
- 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 of American whiskey
- Bond store, another name for bonded warehouse, where alcohol may be held without tax under strict conditions
- "Bonding" may refer to a method for creating electric interconnects:
- Chip bonding, method of wiring some chips (also from different manufactures) together on die an integrated circuit
- Wire bonding, a method of making interconnections between a microchip and the outside world as part of semiconductor device fabrication
- Ball bonding, a method very similar to wire bondin
- Channel bonding (or modem bonding), an arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined
- Electrical bonding, practice of connecting all metal objects in a room to protect from electric shock
Company and product names
- Bond (sheep), Australian breed of sheep
- Bond (wine), California cult wine producer
- Bonds (clothing), Australian clothing company
- Bond Clothing Stores, a former New York 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 Arms, a Texas gun manufacturer
- Bond Aviation Group, a British helicopter operator
- Bond Cars Ltd, a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971:
- BOND, RAD software tool
- Bond No. 9, a New York-based fragrance house
- Bond Pearce, a law firm in the United Kingdom
- Bond Street (cigarette), brand of cigarette
- The Bond Electraglide electric guitar, manufactured by Bond Guitars
- Bond Market Association, the former international trade association for the bond market industry
- Bond Wireless, an Australian wireless company
Organizations
Entertainment
- The James Bond series of spy fiction originally created by Ian Fleming
- James Bond (character), a British secret agent who is the central character in the series
- James Bond novels, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death (usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications)
- James Bond film series, a popular series of 23 films featuring Fleming's secret agent
- Bond girl, the 'love' interest in a James Bond film
- Campion Bond, the fictional character from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- 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
- Bond Street (film), a 1948 British film
Places
- Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London
- Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Bond Education Group, Toronto, Ontario
- Bond Head, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario
- Bond Head, Simcoe County, Ontario, part of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario
- Bond Island, Queensland, an island in the Torres Strait
- Bond Inlet, a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region in Canada
- Bonds, Lancashire, an English village
United States
- Bond, Colorado
- Bond County, Illinois
- Bond Township, Lawrence County, Illinois
- Bond, Mississippi
- Bond Hill, Ohio
- Bond Court Building, the former name of a highrise in Cleveland, Ohio
- Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan
- Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire
- Bond's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, an historic church in Missouri
- Bond House (disambiguation), various National Registered Historic Places in the United States
People
- Alan Bond (businessman) (born 1938), Australian businessman
- Edward Bond (born 1934) English playwright
- Edward A. Bond (1849–1929), NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1899-1904
- Edward August Bond (1813–1898), English scientist
- Francis Bond Head (1792–1875), Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada
- George Phillips Bond (1825–1865), American astronomer, son of William Cranch Bond (below)
- Graham Bond (1937–1974), an English musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s
- James Bond (ornithologist) (1900–1989), American ornithologist
- Julia Bond (born 1987), American porn star
- Kit Bond (born 1939), senior United States Senator of Missouri and member of the Republican Party
- John Bond (Born 1939), Irish American Business man, proprietor of "BOND45" restaurant, managing director of "Bond NYC" Properties
- Michael Bond (born 1926), English children's author
- Nigel Bond (born 1965), English snooker player
- Oliver Bond (died 1797), Irish revolutionary
- Ruskin Bond, Author
- Samantha Bond (born 1961), English actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies
- Shane Bond, Cricketer
- Steve Bond, Actor
- Ward Bond (1903–1960), American actor
- William Cranch Bond (1789–1859), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond (above)
- William K. Bond (1792–1864), American politician
- Bond Baronets
See also