Chapman

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Chapman is an English occupational surname. A chapman was an itinerant dealer or hawker in medieval England, the word coming from Old English "cēapmann", etymologically related to the English word "cheap". It is the cognate of the German Kaufmann.

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2409 Chapman, a main belt asteroid
Chapman (crater), a lunar crater that lies just beyond the northwest rim of the Moon

Chapman Guitars, a guitar company established in 2009 by Rob Chapman
Chapman's, the largest independent ice cream and ice water products manufacturer in Canada
Chapman Piloting, a boating reference work
Chapman (magazine), the Scottish literary journal
Chapman code, a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom
Chapman function, associated with the absorption integral of the Earth's atmosphere
Chapman Hall, a building on the University of Oregon campus
Chapman & Hall, was a British publishing house
Chapman's parakeet, a subspecies of the mitred parakeet
Chapman Stick, a musical instrument
Chapman strut, an automobile suspension device
Chapman's swift, a species of swift in the Apodidae family
Chapman University, a private university located in Orange County, California
Chapman–Kolmogorov equation, a mathematical identity relating the joint probability distributions of different sets of coordinates on a stochastic process
af Chapman (ship), a steel full-rigged ship moored on the western shore of the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden, now serving as a youth hostel
NOAAS Chapman (R 446), an American fisheries research vessel in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1980 to 1998

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