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
  - War bonds, a type of government bond used to raise funding for a war effort
- Municipal bond, a bond issued by a city or local government
- Bond market, a financial market for bonds
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, 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

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, a measure of electromagnetic radiation of an astronomical body
Bond graph, a graphical description of a physical dynamic system
The Bond (Chinese constellation), both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion

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
Forms of an acephalous society in anthropology:

In manufacturing, bonding may be done via adhesives, welding, or fasteners (such as screws, bolts, nails, rivets)
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 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
NIC bonding, concept in Computer Science

Bond (sheep) An Australian breed of sheep
Bonds (clothing), an Australian 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 Cars Ltd, a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971:
- Bond Bug, three-wheeled motor car
- Bond 875, three-wheeled motor car
BOND, RAD software tool
Gold Bond medicated powder
Bond Street (cigarette), brand of cigarette
Eaton's Corrasable Bond, a former brand of erasable typing paper
The Bond Electraglide electric guitar, manufactured by Bond Guitars

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
The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) - Created By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.

The James Bond series of spy fiction
- James Bond (character), the fictional secret agent
Campion Bond, the fictional character from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Bond (band), 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

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 Head, Ontario, Canada
Bonds, Lancashire, an English village

Edward Bond (b. 1934) British playwright
Edward A. Bond (1849-1929), NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1899-1904
Edward August Bond (1813 – 1898), English scientist
George Phillips Bond (1825 – 1865), American astronomer, son of William Cranch Bond (above)
James Bond (1900 - 1989), American ornithologist
Julia Bond (born 1987), American porn star
Kit Bond (born 1939), senior United States Senator of Missouri and member of the Republican Party
Michael Bond (born 1926), English children's author
Oliver Bond (died 1797), Irish revolutionary
Samantha Bond (born 1961), British actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies
Ward Bond (1903 - 1960), American actor
William Cranch Bond (1789 – 1859), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond (below)
William K. Bond (1792 – 1864), American politician