Daisy-chain

Quick meaning: Daisy-chain is a verb meaning Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain.

Meaning

Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain.

More Meanings

1. Especially of a computer device, peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence.
2. To artificially increase (the price of a commodity; originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
3. To artificially increase the price of a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
4. To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device, peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence.

Example Sentences

These peripherals are designed to daisy-chain easily with each other.

The jacks can be ‘daisy-chained’ and controlled as a synchronised set.

We daisy-chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.

Word Forms

• daisy-chains
• daisy-chaining
• daisy-chained
• daisychain

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include key chain, shoe-lace, chainstitch, criss-cross, downline, anlace.

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