Lexic.us

Definition of Chains

1. Noun. Metal shackles; for hands or legs.

Definition of Chains

1. Noun. (plural of chain) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of chain) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chains

1. chain [v] - See also: chain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chains

Literary usage of Chains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties by United States, Charles Joseph Kappler (1904)
"40 chains made rock mound thence due N. 20 chains to quarter Sec. ... 190 thence due W. 20 chains set post thence due N. 40 chains set post thence due E. 20 ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Reversal of inhibition on removal of antiserum to kappa chains (anti-к). ... Addition of rabbit antiserum to mouse kappa chains at the end of the culture ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Relationships between Ca2+, Myosin Light chains, and ATPase in Bovine Aortic Actomyosin: Presence of Ca2+-Requiring Inactivation Factor (40677)1 JOSEPH ..."

4. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"It is of course possible, and from some points of view desirable, to develop the theory of chains entirely independently of the Euclidean geometry. ..."

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