Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) chain, concatenation (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together) "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
S: (n) chain, chemical chain ((chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule))
S: (n) chain (a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament)
S: (n) chain ((business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership)
S: (n) Chain, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain (British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979))