bond

A loan to a company or a government. The loan carries interest payments and is repaid after several years. It can be bought and sold on the stock market, and is a relatively secure investment often held by insurance companies and pension funds.

Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces Surety bond Psychological bond, a form of relationship Bail bond Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms Bond (band) is an Australian/British string quartet Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper BOND, RAD Software tool

People named Bond:

Alan Bond (businessman), an Australian business man famous both for high-profile business ventures James Bond, a fictional secret agent created by Ian Fleming Other James Bond (disambiguation) Julian Bond, an African-American civil rights activist. Kit Bond, a former governor and U.S. Senator of Missouri Michael Bond, of Paddington Bear creation fame Nigel Bond, snooker player Ruskin Bond (1934– ), an Anglo-Indian author Samantha Bond, actress best known as Miss Moneypenny in Bond films Tommy Bond (1856-1941), Irish baseball player Tommy Bond (1926-2005), American actor William Cranch Bond, first director of the Harvard College Observatory

Places named Bond:

Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London Bond Cars Ltd, a long-defunct British car company famous for making eccentric three wheeled cars.