chained

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past simple and past participle of

to fasten someone or something using a chain:

chain something up It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time.

chain someone/something/yourself to something They chained themselves to lampposts in protest at the judge's decision.

to join objects together so that they form one long connected object:

The beads are chained together in 7-foot lengths.

He succeeded in chaining together a long string of synthetic genes to re-create a portion of the DNA of a simple bacterium.

to connect things so that they happen together, one after another:

The system allows you to send individual commands or chain them together.

These filters can be chained to each other to create sequences of filters.

be chained with The second operation may be chained with the first operation, or performed separately.