Bond

Uses of **bond**, **bonds**, **bonded**, and **bonding**:

## Financial bonds

- Bond (finance), in finance, a debt security, issued by Issuer
    - Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
    - 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. http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_does_'Have_you_ever_been_bonded'_mean
    - A performance bond is 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
    - Covalent bond, a chemical bond between two non-metals
    - Ionic bond, bonding of a non-metal and a metal
    - Metallic bond, bonding between atoms and metals
- 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.
- Psychological bond, a form of relationship
    - Human bonding
    - Maternal bond
    - Paternal bond
    - Male bonding
    - Female bonding
    - Affectional bond
    - Capture-bonding, the psychological mechanism behind Stockholm syndrome.
- 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
- 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

## 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

## 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
- Bonds in New York City
- 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

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