Bond
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Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:
Fiduciary
- Bond market
- Bond (finance), in finance, a type of debt security
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
- War bond, a type of government bond used to raise funding for a war effort
- Municipal bond, a bond issued by a city or local government
- Corporate bond, a bond issued by a corporation
- Mortgage bond, in South Africa a bond or mortgage bond is the usual term for property mortgage
- Development impact bond (DIB)
- Social impact bond (SIB)
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
- Insurance bond (or investment bond), a life assurance-based single premium investment
- Surety bond, a three-party contract, where the surety promises to pay the obligee for non-performance or dishonesty by the principal
- Performance bond, a surety bond for completion of work under a contract
- Bail-bond agent, or bail bondsman, a person or corporation providing 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), a system of servitude where someone must work to pay off a debt
- Bonding an employee (such as Fidelity bond), a form of insurance that protects businesses against fraudulent acts of its employees.
- Bond of association, a basic building-block of credit unions and of co-operative banks
- Bond vigilante, a form of political protest by selling bonds
Judiciary
- Peace bond, a protection order from a Canadian court
- Bond of manrent, a Scottish clan treaty
- Bond of Association, a British legal document from the 16th century
- Bond v. United States (2000), a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the fourth amendment
- Bond v The Queen, a 2000 High Court of Australia case
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, between nonmetals
- Ionic bond, between metal and nonmetals
- Metallic bond, between metals
- Bond albedo, a measure of the electromagnetic radiation reflected from an astronomical body
- Bond graph, a graphical description of a physical dynamic system
- Bond fluctuation model, a lattice model for simulating the conformation and dynamics of polymer systems
- The Bond (Chinese constellation), both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion
- Bond Crater, a crater on Mars
Social sciences
- Pair bond, in biology, 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
Anthropology
Psychology
Manufacturing, construction and electronics
- Bond, 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, referring to a type of American whiskey
- Bond store, another name for bonded warehouse, where alcohol may be held without tax under strict conditions
- "Bonding" may refer to a method for creating electric interconnects:
- Chip bonding, method of wiring some chips (also from different manufactures) together on die an integrated circuit
- Wire bonding, a method of making interconnections between a microchip and the outside world as part of semiconductor device fabrication
- Ball bonding, a method very similar to wire bonding
- Channel bonding (or modem bonding), an arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined
- NIC bonding, an alternate name for link aggregation
- Electrical bonding, practice of connecting all metal objects in a room to protect from electric shock
Company and product names
- Bond (sheep), Australian breed of sheep
- Bond (wine), California cult wine producer
- Bonds (clothing), Australian clothing company
- Bond Clothing Stores, a former New York clothing company
- Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Norwich, England, now called John Lewis Norwich
- Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford
- Bond Arms, a Texas gun manufacturer
- Bond Aviation Group, a British helicopter operator
- Bond Offshore Helicopters, a subsidiary of the above
- Bond Cars Ltd, a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971:
- Bond 875, three-wheeled motor car
- Bond Bug, three-wheeled motor car
- Bond Equipe, their first four-wheeled motor car
- Bond Minicar, three-wheeled motor car
- BOND, RAD software tool
- Bond Street (cigarette), brand of cigarette
- The Bond Electraglide electric guitar, manufactured by Bond Guitars
- Bond Market Association, the former international trade association for the bond market industry
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
- Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), created By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
- Bond (for international development), the membership body for UK-based NGOs working in international development
Entertainment
- The James Bond series of spy fiction originally created by Ian Fleming
- James Bond (literary character), a British secret agent who is the central character in a series of novels
- James Bond filmography, a British secret agent who is the central character in a series of films
- James Bond stories, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death (usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications)
- James Bond film series, a popular series of 25 films featuring Fleming's secret agent
- Bond girl, the 'love' interest in a James Bond film
- Campion Bond, the fictional character from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Bond (band), an Australian/British string quartet
- Bond: Video Clip Collection, a video collection from the band
- The Bond, a film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds'
- "The Bonding", a third-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Bond Street (film), a 1948 British film
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 Education Group, Toronto, Ontario
- Bond Head, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario
- Bond Head, Simcoe County, Ontario, part of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario
- Bond Island, Queensland, an island in the Torres Strait
- Bond Inlet, a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region in Canada
- Bonds, Lancashire, an English village
United States
- Bond, Colorado
- Bond County, Illinois
- Bond Township, Lawrence County, Illinois
- Bond, Mississippi
- Bond Hill, Ohio
- Bond Court Building, the former name of a highrise in Cleveland, Ohio
- Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan
- Bond Falls Scenic Site, a state park for the above waterfall
- Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire
- Bond's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, an historic church in Missouri
- Bond House (disambiguation), various National Registered Historic Places in the United States