CHEMICAL BOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemical bond mean? 

• CHEMICAL BOND (noun)
  The noun CHEMICAL BOND has 1 sense:

1. an electrical force linking atoms

  Familiarity information: CHEMICAL BOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMICAL BOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An electrical force linking atoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

bond; chemical bond

Hypernyms ("chemical bond" is a kind of...):

attraction; attractive force (the force by which one object attracts another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemical bond"):

covalent bond (a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule)

cross-link; cross-linkage (a side bond that links two adjacent chains of atoms in a complex molecule)

hydrogen bond (a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond)

electrostatic bond; electrovalent bond; ionic bond (a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains an electron to form a negative ion)

metallic bond (a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs)

peptide bond; peptide linkage (the primary linkage of all protein structures; the chemical bond between the carboxyl groups and amino groups that unites a peptide)

 Context examples 

Formation of a chemical bond following a transfer of electrons between two ions with opposite charges.

(Ionic Bonding, NCI Thesaurus)

A physical connection between two atoms or radicals in which a chemical bond is formed by sharing electrons.

(Covalent Interaction, NCI Thesaurus)

The breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules.

(Chemical Cleavage, NCI Thesaurus)