Portuguese | English |
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cadeia noun | jail [jails](place for short-term confinement) |
cadeia noun {f} | catena [catenas](series of related items) chain [chains](series of interconnected rings or links) prison [prisons](place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes) |
cadeia alimentar noun {f} | food chain [food chains](feeding relationship between species) food web(diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem) |
cadeia de caracteres noun {f} | string [strings](programming: sequence of characters) |
cadeia de comando noun {f} | chain of command(hierarchy in which one rank obeys the one above it) |
cadeia de custódia noun | chain of custody(the documentation showing the full process of acquisition, transfer, handling and disposition of physical or electronic materials) |
cadeia montanhosa noun {f} | mountain chain(a series of mountain ranges) |
cadeia trófica noun {f} | food chain [food chains](feeding relationship between species) |
chave de cadeia noun | jailbait(person below the age of consent for sexual activity) |
foto de cadeia noun {f} | mug shot(photograph taken of the head and shoulders) |
reacção em cadeia da polimerase noun | polymerase chain reaction(technique in molecular biology for creating multiple copies of DNA from a sample) |
reação em cadeia noun {f} | chain reaction(type of nuclear reaction) |
regra da cadeia noun {f} | chain rule(mean value theorem) |