Chain (disambiguation)

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A chain is a series of connected links which are typically made of metal.

Chain may also refer to:

Necklace, a jewelry which is worn around the neck
Mail (armour) (or "chainmail"), a type of armor made of interlocking chain links
Chain tool, small mechanical device used to "break" a bicycle chain in such a way that it could be mended with the same tool
Chain (unit), unit of length
Gunter's chain, a unit of measurement
Catenary (or "chain"), the shape of a hanging flexible cable when supported at its ends and acted upon by a uniform gravitational force
Chain (real estate), whereby a group of buyers/sellers are linked together
Fetter (Buddhism), a deeply rooted mental attachment preventing one from achieving liberation from suffering
Chaining, a technique from applied behavioral analysis for teaching complicated tasks by breaking them into simpler steps
Chain Home and Chain Home Low, early British RDF (radar) systems of the WWII era
Chains (nautical), small platforms on the sides of ships

Management

Chain store, retail outlets which share a brand and central management
Chain of command, the line of authority and responsibility along which orders are passed
Supply chain, coordinated system of organizations, people, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer
Cold chain, temperature-controlled supply chain
Value chain, a management concept first described by Michael Porter

Chain (algebraic topology), formal linear combination of k-simplices
Chain complex, a generalization of the algebraic topology construct to homological algebra
Chain, a set paired with a total order, it usually refers to a totally ordered subset of some partially ordered set
Markov chain, discrete-time stochastic process with the Markov property
Pseudo-arc, which has at its heart the concept of a chain
Chain rule, a tool for differentiation in calculus
Conway chained arrow notation, a way of expressing exponents using arrows

Chain reaction, sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions
Ideal chain, mathematical model of polymer folding
Worm-like chain (or semiflexible chain), which has Kuhn length equal to twice the persistence length

Electron transport chain, a sequence of chemical reactions yielding the transport of an electron through a membrane

Chained dollars, used to express real dollar amounts adjusted over time for inflation

John T. Chain, Jr., a retired U.S. Air Force general
Ernst Boris Chain (1906–1979), Nobel Prize-winning chemist famed for his isolation of penicillin

Chain (band), an Australian blues rock band active from the 1960s to the present
Chain (Bonnie Pink album), 2008
Chain (Paul Haig album), 1989
Chain (KAT-TUN album), 2012
Chain (Pylon album), 1990
Chains (Nick Jonas song), 2014
"Chains" (The Cookies song), 1962, covered by the Beatles
"Chains" (Tina Arena song), 1994
"Chains" (Patty Loveless song), 1990

Chain sequence (continued fraction), numbers in the mathematical study of continued fractions
Chain of thought, continuous thought process where ideas follow one from the other
Chain smoking, the habit of smoking continuously
Chain stitch, in sewing and embroidery, a series of looped stitches that form a chain
Chain letter, message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the message and then pass them on to one or more new recipients
Chain, Planetary, a chain of globes serving as fields of evolution in theosophical cosmology
Crater chain, a line of craters on the surface of an astronomical body
Daisy chain (disambiguation), various meanings
Human chain, a form of protest
Signifying chain, in semiotics, an interlocking system of signifiers
Hudson River Chain, one of several chains used in blockades of the Hudson River
Archipelago, a chain of islands
Mountain range, a chain of hills or mountains

Chain Bridge (Potomac River), bridge across the Potomac River at the Little Falls in Washington, D.C.
Chain Bridge (Budapest), suspension bridge that spans River Danube between Buda and Pest
Union Bridge (Tweed) (or "Chain Bridge"), bridge in Northumberland
Chains (Blackadder), a 1986 episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
Chains (play), a 1909 play by Elizabeth Baker
Chains (geological site) a geological site on the north-west plateau of Exmoor, Somerset, England
Chain (film), a 2004 film written and directed by Jem Cohen
Chains, a short film starring TNA wrestler Kurt Angle
Chains, a 2008, historical fiction book by Laurie Halse Anderson
Chain (caste), a cultivating and fishing caste found in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India