English Explanatory Dictionary

Gunter's chain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred links.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Gunter's chain.

Word forms

Gunter's chain Gunter's chains

Etymology

Named after Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and geometer who devised it. For the surname, see Gunter.

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