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English
Etymology
From chain + -let.
Noun
chainlet (plural chainlets)
- A small chain.
1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: ">…] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , and A Constable and Co., , →OCLC:What plumage waved the altar round ,
How spurs and ringing chainlets sound
1849, Currer Bell , “The First Blue-Stocking”, in Shirley. A Tale. In Three Volumes.">…], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., , →OCLC, pages 84–85:Her pure white dress, her fair arms and neck, the trembling chainlet of gold circling her throat, and quivering on her breast, glistened strangely amid the obscurity of the sick-room.
- A chain (totally ordered set) that has a finite number of elements.
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