English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒndɪŋ

Verb

1. present participle of bond

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
  • 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

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
• 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

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
• Psychological bond, a form of relationship
  • Human bonding
  • Maternal bond
  • Paternal bond
  • Male bonding
  • Female bonding
  • Affectional bond
• Forms of an acephalous society in anthropology:
  • Village-bonded society
  • Land-bonded society
  • Lineage-bonded society

Manufacturing, construction and electronics

• 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

Company and product names

• 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

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

Entertainment

• James Bond, a fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming
• 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

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 Head, Ontario, Canada
• Bonds, Lancashire, an English village* Bond, Colorado
• Bond County, Illinois
• Bond Hill, Ohio
• Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan
• Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire

People

• Oliver Bond (died 1797), Irish revolutionary
• William Cranch Bond (1789 – 1859), American astronomer, father of George Phillips Bond (below)
• William K. Bond (1792 – 1864), American politician
• 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
• Michael Bond (born 1926), English children's author
• Kit Bond (born 1939), senior United States Senator of Missouri and member of the Republican Party
• Bobby Bonds (1946 – 2003), American baseball athlete, father of Barry Bonds (below)
• Samantha Bond (born 1961), British actress, best known for her role of Miss Moneypenny in the fictional James Bond movies
• Barry Bonds (born 1964), American baseball athlete, son of Bobby Bonds (above)
• Julia Bond (born 1987), American porn star

Other uses

• Peace-bonding, something which makes a weapon unusable as a weapon
• Peace bond, a protection order from a Canadian court

See also

• Bondage
• Bonde

External Links

• Surety Bond Q & A - An online association of bond professionals.
• Treasury Listing - List of federally licensed bonding companies approved by the US Treasury.