Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) having atoms linked by bonds which form a ring.
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- adjective having atoms linked by bonds represented in circular or triangular form
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Examples
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As such, this muscle can be trained most effectively using single leg closed-chain strength exercises and plyometrics to increase functional activation of the VMO.
FitBits: Fitness News You Can Use William Harryman 2007
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People out there will know what I mean, but closed-chain type exercises, leg presses, squatting, biking, Nordic Track, Stairmaster.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
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Using this criterion, "great exercises" are almost always closed-chain, free-weight, multi-articular movements."
Speedlinking 10/26/07 William Harryman 2007
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"presented with" the closed-chain theory of the structure of the benzene molecule during one such dream-trance state, and Otto Loewi, who wrote that in
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