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chainlink

noun

Etymology

From chain + link.

  1. inherited from *kleng-✻
  2. inherited from *hlankaz✻ — “bendsome, flexible”
  3. inherited from *hlankiz✻
  4. derived from *hlenkr✻
  5. inherited from hlenċe
  6. inherited from linke
  7. compounded as chainlink — “chain + link”

Definitions

  1. Wires woven in a zig-zag pattern to form a mesh.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chainlink. 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