secondary censorship | armed forces censorship of the personal communications of officers or civilian employees or enlisted personnel not subject to primary censorship |
secondary education | education beyond the elementary grades, provided by a high school or college preparatory school |
chain pickerel chain pike Esox niger | common in quiet waters of eastern United States |
anchor chain anchor rope | the chain or rope that attaches an anchor to a vessel |
atomic pile atomic reactor pile chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
auxiliary storage external storage secondary storage | a data storage device that is not the main memory of a computer |
ball and chain | heavy iron ball attached to a prisoner by a chain |
bicycle chain | a chain that transmits the power from the pedals to the rear wheel of a bicycle |
chain | a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament |
chain string strand | a necklace made by a stringing objects together, a string of beads, a strand of pearls, |
chain | anything that acts as a restraint |
chain | a linked or connected series of objects, a chain of daisies |
chain mail ring mail mail chain armor chain armour ring armor ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |
chain printer | an impact printer that carries the type slugs by links of a revolving chain |
chain saw chainsaw | portable power saw, teeth linked to form an endless chain |
chain stitch | a looped stitch resembling the links of a chain, used in embroidery and in sewing |
chain stitch | the most basic of all crochet stitches made by pulling a loop of yarn through another loop |
chain store | one of a chain of retail stores under the same management and selling the same merchandise |
chain tongs | a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes, an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe |
chain wrench | another name for chain tongs |
daisy chain | flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems, worn by students on class day at some schools |
flower chain | flowers strung together in a chain |
fob watch chain watch guard | short chain or ribbon attaching a pocket watch to a man's vest |
paper chain | a chain made of loops of colored paper, used to decorate a room |
pull chain | a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet) |
secondary coil secondary winding secondary | coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil |
storage cell secondary cell | a cell that can be recharged |
tire chain snow chain | chain attached to wheels to increase traction on ice or snow |
secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
secondary dentition | dentition of permanent teeth |
chain letter | a letter that is sent successively to several people |
chain | (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership |
apparel chain | a chain of clothing stores |
discount chain | a chain of discount stores |
restaurant chain | a chain of restaurants |
retail chain | a chain of retail stores |
chain gang | a gang of convicts chained together |
secondary diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the lower left entry to the upper right entry |
secondary school lyceum lycee Gymnasium middle school | a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college, usually grades to |
chain concatenation | a series of things depending on each other as if linked together, the chain of command, a complicated concatenation of circumstances |
daisy chain | (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiences |
secondary modern school | a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education |
secondary | the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen |
Pennines Pennine Chain | a system of hills in Britain that extend from the Scottish border in the north to the Trent River in the south, forms the watershed for English rivers |
branched chain | an open chain of atoms with one or more side chains attached to it |
chain chemical chain | (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule) |
closed chain ring | (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop |
long chain longhain molecule | (chemistry) a relatively long chain of atoms in a molecule |
open chain | a chain of atoms in a molecule whose ends are not joined to form a ring |
range mountain range range of mountains chain mountain chain chain of mountains | a series of hills or mountains, the valley was between two ranges of hills, the plains lay just beyond the mountain range |