Gunter's chain

See also: Gunter's Chain

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

Gunter's chain (plural Gunter's chains)

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