Bond

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Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:

Fiduciary bonds

• Bond (finance), in finance, a debt security, issued by Issuer
  • Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
    • Government bond register, a register of bonds issued by a national government, such as the Canadian Government Bond Register.
  • Bond market, a financial market for bonds
• Investment bond, a life assurance based single premium investment
• A surety bond is a three party contract, where the surety promises to pay the obligee for non-performance or dishonesty by the principal. Workers in many jobs must be bonded.
  • A performance bond a surety bond for completion of work under a contract
  • A bail bond is a surety bond for return of a person to a court
• Tenancy bond (or damage deposit), a deposit taken by a landlord in relation to rental of a property
• Catastrophe bond (or cat bond), a form of reinsurance
• Bonded labor (or debt bondage) is a system of servitude where someone must work to pay off a debt

Physical sciences

• Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
• Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
• Bond albedo is a measure of electromagnetic radiation of an astronomical body
• A bond graph is a graphical description of a physical dynamic system

Social sciences

• In biology, a pair bond is the strong affinity that develops in some species between the male and female in a breeding pair, or, sometimes, between individuals of the same sex.
• Psychological bond, a form of relationship
  • Human bonding
  • Maternal bond
  • Paternal bond
  • Male bonding
  • Female bonding
  • Affectional bond
• In anthropology, acephalous societies are categorized as village-bonded, land-bonded, and lineage-bonded

Manufacturing, construction and electronics

• In manufacturing, bonding may be done via adhesives, welding, or fasteners (such as screws, bolts, nails, rivets)
• Bond is the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
• Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper
• Bonded Leather (or reconstituted leather)
• Bottled in bond refers to a type American whiskey
• Wire bonding, a method of making interconnections between a microchip and the outside world as part of semiconductor device fabrication
• Channel bonding (or modem bonding), an arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined
• Electrical bonding, concept in electricity distribution

Company and product names

• Bonds (company) an Australian clothing company
• Bonds was formerly the name of a department store in Norwich, England, now called John Lewis Norwich
• Bonds was formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford
• Bond Cars Ltd a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971 manufacturer of the Bond bug and Bond 875 three-wheeled motor cars
• BOND, RAD Software tool
• Gold Bond medicated powder
• Common Bond Records, Australian record label
• Bond Street brand of cigarette
• Eaton's Corrasable Bond was a brand of erasable typing paper
• Bond Guitars manufactured the Bond Electraglide electric guitar

Organizations

• Afrikaner Bond, a political party in the Cape Colony in the 19th century
• bonding-studenteninitiative e.V., a German student organisation
• Church of the Universal Bond, a British religious group

Entertainment

• James Bond, a fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming
  • Bond 22 is the working title of a future James Bond film
• Bond is an Australian/British string quartet
• The Bond a film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty Bonds
• "The Bonding", a third-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Any Bonds Today?, a propaganda film for War Bonds during World War II

Places

• Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London
• Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
  • Bond South Africa, South African campus of Bond University
• Bond, Colorado
• Bond Hill, Ohio
• Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River
• Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire
• Bond Head, Ontario
• Bond County, Illinois

People

• Barry Bonds, b. 1964, United States baseball athlete, son of Bobby Bonds (below)
• Bobby Bonds, 1946-2003, United States baseball athlete, father of Barry Bonds (above)
• George Phillips Bond, 1825-1865, United States astronomer, son of William Cranch Bond (below)
• Michael Bond, b. 1926, English children's author
• William Cranch Bond, 1789-1859, United States astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond (above)
• William K. Bond, 1792-1864, United States politician

Other uses

• Peace-bonding is something which makes a weapon unusable as a weapon
• A peace bond is a protection order from a Canadian court

Miscellaneous uses

• Bondage
• Bonde