Gunter's chain
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noun
See under chain (def. 8a).
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Origin of Gunter's chain
First recorded in 1670–80; named after its inventor, Edmund Gunter
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Gunter's chain
noun
Word Origin for Gunter's chain
C17: named after Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), English mathematician and astronomer
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