chemical bond

1. 1.

   an electrical force linking atoms

   Synonymsbond

   Broaderattraction

   Narrowercovalent bondcross-linkhydrogen bondionic bondmetallic bondpeptide bond

Questions about chemical bond

What does chemical bond mean?

chemical bond means "an electrical force linking atoms".

What is another word for chemical bond?

Close synonyms include bond. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chemical bond a common word?

chemical bond is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.