Gunter's chain
/ˈgʌntə/noun
1- Surveying a former measuring instrument 66 ft (20.1 m) long, subdivided into 100 links, each of which is a short section of wire connected to the next link by a loop. It has now been superseded by the steel tape and electronic equipment.【测绘】冈特测链（旧时的一种测量工具, 长66英尺, 即20.1公尺, 分成100节）。
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- this length as a unit, equal to furlong or 180 mile冈特测链（长度单位, 等于1/10弗隆, 1/80英里）。亦称CHAIN.
词源
late 17th cent.: named after Edmund Gunter （1581-1626）， the English mathematician who devised it.