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Gunter's chain

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred…

    A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred links.

  2. Alternative form of Gunter's chain.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA