Meaning

2 senses
  1. (figuratively)A connected sequence of ideas, reasoning, or mental associations that someone experiences in thinking; the logical or associative progression of someone’s reasoning.

    Near-synonym: thought process

  2. A sequence of intermediate reasoning steps generated by a model to break down and solve a problem before producing its final answer or response.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The chain of crimes are thought to have been committed by the same man.

    ruПредполагается, что эта серия преступлений совершена одним человеком. — soweli_Elepanto

  2. She chained up all his thoughts and feelings.

    deSie fesselte alle seine Gedanken und Gefühle. — al_ex_an_der

Forms

plural: chains of thought
Singularchain of thought
Pluralchains of thought

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

5 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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