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chainage

chainage noun: an imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.

Noun

chainage (countable and uncountable, plural chainages)

  1. An imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.
  2. A distance measured along such a line.

chainage meaning in Tamil

chainage in Tamil

தொடரியளவு, நீளப்பாடு

Forms of chainage

pluralchainages

Origin of chainage

From chain + -age.

Questions about chainage

What does chainage mean?
Chainage means an imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.
What is chainage in Tamil?
Chainage in Tamil is தொடரியளவு, நீளப்பாடு. See Chainage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chainage?
Chainage is a noun.
What is the plural of chainage?
The plural of chainage is chainages.

Words near chainage in the dictionary

  1. chain-snatch
  2. chain-snatched
  3. chain-snatches
  4. chain-snatching
  5. chainable
  6. chainage
  7. chainages
  8. Chainat
  9. chainbolt
  10. chainbolts
  11. chainbrake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chainage (page history and authors); chainage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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