(nautical) A ferry that is pulled through the water via an attached chain.

(law) In the law of real property, a series of documents recorded in the appropriate government repository which establish the passage of a parcel of property from owner to owner, ideally back to the first owner to reduce the property to private ownership.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chain-smoke

simple past tense and past participle of chain-smoke

(semiotics) An interlocking system of signifiers.

(organic chemistry, of an aliphatic compound) Having a chain of more than about twelve carbon atoms.

(organic chemistry, of an aliphatic compound) Having a chain of between about six and twelve carbon atoms

(law, chemistry) The documentation showing the full process of acquisition, transfer, handling and disposition of physical or electronic materials.

(organic chemistry, of an aliphatic compound) Having a chain of fewer than about six carbon atoms.

(organic chemistry) Describing any aliphatic compound that contains a chain of carbon atoms all of which are connected to either one or two others.