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chainlets

chainlets is the plural of chainlet.

Meaning of chainlet

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....
  2. A chain (totally ordered set) that has a finite number of elements.

Questions about chainlets

What is chainlets the plural of?
Chainlets is the plural of chainlet.

Words near chainlets in the dictionary

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

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