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daisy chain
daisy chainn.1. A garland or chain made of linked daisies.2. A series of connected events, activities, or things, likened to a garland: "There is no reason to think that any child was ever a member of a different species from its parents, even though the daisy chain of parents and children stretches back from humans to fish and beyond" (Richard Dawkins).daisy chain n a garland made, esp by children, by threading daisies together dai′sy chain`
n. 1. a string of daisies linked together to form a chain or garland. 2. a series of interconnected things or events. [1835–45] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | daisy chain - (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experienceschain, concatenation - a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances" | | 2. | daisy chain - flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stems; worn by students on class day at some schoolsflower chain - flowers strung together in a chain |
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daisy chain1. noun Literally, a series of interwoven daisies, such as may be used for a garland. The children all wove little daisy chains to wear to the Midsummer pageant.2. noun Any series of interconnected events, experiences, happenings, or things. Our lives, which seem so enclosed unto themselves, are really complex daisy chains of the interactions we have with people from the day we are born until the day we die.3. noun In commerce, a series of securities transactions between companies intended to give the appearance of heavy active trading, thus attracting investors at an inflated price. The three CEOs were found guilty of colluding to form a daisy chain, but not before they had swindled investors out of millions.4. noun slang A group of three or more people engaged in simultaneous oral sexual activity.5. verb Of computers or their components, to connect or link together in a series so as to form a shared network. Sometimes hyphenated. Our wireless Internet had a terrible connection on the second floor, so we daisy chained a second router to the main one downstairs. When the Internet went down, I had to daisy chain several laptops to my PC to access its files for the meeting.See also: chain, daisydaisy chain1. A series of connected events, activities, or experiences. For example, The daisy chain of lectures on art history encompassed the last 200 years. This metaphorical term alludes to a string of the flowers linked together. [Mid-1800s] 2. A line or circle of three or more persons engaged in simultaneous sexual activity. For example, A high-class call girl, she drew the line at daisy chains. [ Vulgar slang; 1920s] 3. A series of securities transactions intended to give the impression of active trading so as to drive up the price. For example, The SEC is on the alert for unscrupulous brokers who are engaging in daisy chains. [1980s] See also: chain, daisydaisy chain
daisy chain[′dāz·ē ‚chān] (computer science) A means of connecting devices (readers, printers, and so on) to a central processor by party-line input/output buses which join these devices by male and female connectors, the last female connector being shorted by a suitable line termination. daisy chain (networking)A bus wiring scheme in which, for example,device A is wired to device B, device B is wired to device C,etc. The last device is normally wired to a resistor orterminator. All devices may receive identical signals or,in contrast to a simple bus, each device in the chain maymodify one or more signals before passing them on.
Characteristic of RS-485, of Apple's LocalTalk, and ofvarious industrial control networks; also often used todescribe Thinwire Ethernet (10base2).daisy chainConnected in series, one after the other. Transmitted signals go to the first device, then to the second and so on.
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daisy chain
Daisy chainManipulation of the market by traders to create the illusion of active volume to attract investors.Daisy ChainA series of manipulative transactions on a security intended to create an impression of a high trading volume, suggesting interest in assets or securities that may not actually be there. This tends to increase the share price, which in turn encourages other investors to buy the security. When other investors become interested, the manipulating traders dump the security at an artificially high price. See also: Churning, Round-Trip Trading.daisy chain Manipulative trading among a small group of individuals or institutions that is intended to give the impression of heavy volume. As outsiders see the unusual trading activity and are drawn into the chain, the traders who started the daisy chain then sell their positions, leaving the new investors with overpriced securities.daisy chain
Words related to daisy chainnoun (figurative) a series of associated things or people or experiencesRelated Wordsnoun flower chain consisting of a string of daisies linked by their stemsRelated Words |