# chain

> homogeneous element of a chain complex; a formal linear combination of simplexes (or other generators of the chain complex)

**Wikidata**: [Q4504468](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4504468)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(algebraic_topology))  
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