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kill chains

kill chains is the plural of kill chain.

Meaning of kill chain

Noun

kill chain (plural kill chains)

  1. The process of making an attack, from identifying the target to dispatching forces and destroying it.
    • [To Palantir CTO S. Sankar] And so Palantir treats the military as both a kill chain problem and a corporate supply chain problem? You’re working on both effectively?2025 October 30, Ross Douthat, “What Palantir Sees”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025

Questions about kill chains

What is kill chains the plural of?
Kill chains is the plural of kill chain.

Words near kill chains in the dictionary

  1. kill bit
  2. kill bits
  3. kill box
  4. kill boxes
  5. kill chain
  6. kill chains
  7. kill cord
  8. kill cords
  9. kill devil
  10. Kill Devil Hills
  11. kill fee

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