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

'Chain' in other languages