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a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together" a unit of length British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979) (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances" a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership anything that acts as a restraint a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"; connect or arrange into a chain by linking metal shackles; for hands or legs a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range" |
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