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In most meanings chain is a sequence of connected links of some kind.
Chain may refer to:
- A physical, literal chain
- Chain (unit), unit of length
- Gunter's chain, a unit of measurement
- Chain tool, small mechanical device used to "break" a bicycle chain in such a way that it could be mended with the same tool
- Mail (armour) (or "chainmail"), a type of armor made of interlocking chain links
- Catenary (or "chain"), the shape of a hanging flexible cable when supported at its ends and acted upon by a uniform gravitational force
- Chain (in selling a house), 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
In management:
- Chain store, retail outlets which share a brand and central management
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- 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
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In economics:
- Chained dollars, used to express real dollar amounts adjusted over time for inflation.
Names involving 'chain':
- Chain Bridge (Washington, D.C.), bridge across the Potomac River at the Little Falls in Washington, D.C.
- Széchenyi Chain Bridge, suspension bridge that spans River Danube between Buda and Pest
- Union Bridge (Tweed) (or "Chain Bridge"), bridge in Northumberland
- John Chain, a retired U.S. Air Force general
- Alice in Chains, an influential rock group that was formed in the late-1980s in Seattle, Washington
- Bat Chain Puller, the tenth album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band
- Bat Chain Puller, a collection of works by Kurt Loder for Rolling Stone
- Chains (song), a song performed by the Beatles
- Chains (Patty Loveless song), a 1990 country song
- Chains of Love, a song by Terry Ronald
- Chains (Blackadder), an episode of the British sitcom Blackadder II
- Chains (play), a 1909 play by Elizabeth Baker
- Ernst Boris Chain, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist famed for his isolation of penicillin.
- The Chain (Deana Carter album), a 2007 country album
- The Chain, a song by Fleetwood Mac
Also see Chain (sequence) for uses of the term 'chain' for sequences of objects.
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