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chainage

noun

Etymology

From chain + -age.

  1. derived from *kat-✻
  2. derived from catēna
  3. derived from chaine
  4. inherited from cheyne
  5. suffixed as chainage — “chain + age”

Definitions

  1. An imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a…

    An imaginary line used to measure distance, often corresponding to the centre of a straight road.

  2. A distance measured along such a line.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chainage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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