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Gunter's chain
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Gunter's Chain
English
Alternative forms
en Gunter's Chain
Etymology
Named after Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and geometer who devised it. For the surname, see en Gunter.
Noun
A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred links.
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