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chainlet

chainlet noun: a small chain.

Noun

chainlet (plural chainlets)

  1. A small chain.
    • What plumage waved the altar round ,
      How spurs and ringing chainlets sound1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co....
    • Her pure white dress, her fair arms and neck, the trembling chainlet of gold circling her throat, and quivering on her breast, glistened strangely amid the obscurity of the sick-room.1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The First Blue-Stocking”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 84–85
  2. A chain (totally ordered set) that has a finite number of elements.

Forms of chainlet

pluralchainlets

Origin of chainlet

From chain + -let.

Questions about chainlet

What does chainlet mean?
Chainlet means a small chain.
What part of speech is chainlet?
Chainlet is a noun.
What is the plural of chainlet?
The plural of chainlet is chainlets.

Words near chainlet in the dictionary

  1. chaining
  2. chaining up
  3. chainings
  4. chainless
  5. chainlessness
  6. chainlet
  7. chainlets
  8. chainlike
  9. chainlink
  10. chainlinked
  11. chainlinks

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