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Gunter's chain

noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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

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