(politics) The first chain of major archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. Principally composed of the Kuril Islands, Japanese Archipelago, Ryu Kyu Islands, Taiwan, the northern Philippines, and Borneo; from the Kamchatka Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula.

(politics) The next chain of archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast, beyond the first island chain. Principally composed of the Bonin Islands, Marianas Islands, Caroline Islands; from Honshu to New Guinea.

(politics, India) The Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Sumatra; from Burma in the north to either the Indonesian Archipelago, or Australia in the south.

plural of chain-of-responsibility pattern

(computing) A behavioural design pattern that consists of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.

Synonym of rattle someone's cage

Alternative form of very-long-chain

(organic chemistry, of an aliphatic compound) Having a chain of more than about eighteen carbon atoms.

Alternative form of netted chainfern

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yank someone's chain