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gunter's chain

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables
gun-ter's chain
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

Alternative form of Gunter's chain.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Gunter's chains (plural)

Questions

What does gunter's chain mean?
A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred links.
Where does gunter's chain come from?
Named after Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and geometer who devised it. For the surname, see Gunter.

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