Bond

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Bond, bonds, bonded, and bonding may refer to:

Fiduciary

Bond market
Bond (finance), in finance, a type of debt security
- Government bond, a bond issued by a national government
  - War bond, a type of government bond used to raise funding for a war effort
- Municipal bond, a bond issued by a city or local government
- Corporate bond, a bond issued by a corporation
- Mortgage bond, in South Africa a bond or mortgage bond is the usual term for property mortgage
- Development impact bond (DIB)
- Social impact bond (SIB)
Insurance bond (or investment bond), a life assurance-based single premium investment
Surety bond, a three-party contract, where the surety promises to pay the obligee for non-performance or dishonesty by the principal
- Performance bond, a surety bond for completion of work under a contract
- Bail-bond agent, or bail bondsman, a person or corporation providing a surety bond for return of a person to a court
Tenancy bond (or damage deposit), a deposit taken by a landlord in relation to rental of a property
Catastrophe bond (or cat bond), a form of reinsurance
Bonded labor (or debt bondage), a system of servitude where someone must work to pay off a debt
Bonding an employee (such as Fidelity bond), a form of insurance that protects businesses against fraudulent acts of its employees.
Bond of association, a basic building-block of credit unions and of co-operative banks
Bond vigilante, a form of political protest by selling bonds

Peace bond, a protection order from a Canadian court
Bond of manrent, a Scottish clan treaty
Bond of Association, a British legal document from the 16th century
Bond v. United States (2000), a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the fourth amendment
Bond v The Queen, a 2000 High Court of Australia case

Bond number, in fluid mechanics, a dimensionless number expressing the ratio of gravitational forces to surface tension forces
Chemical bond, the physical phenomenon of chemical substances being held together by attraction of atoms
- Covalent bond, between nonmetals
- Ionic bond, between metal and nonmetals
- Metallic bond, between metals
Bond albedo, a measure of the electromagnetic radiation reflected from an astronomical body
Bond graph, a graphical description of a physical dynamic system
Bond fluctuation model, a lattice model for simulating the conformation and dynamics of polymer systems
The Bond (Chinese constellation), both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion
Bond Crater, a crater on Mars

Pair bond, in biology, the strong affinity that develops in some species between the male and female in a breeding pair, or, sometimes, between individuals of the same sex

Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap as they are laid in brickwork
Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper
Bonded leather (or reconstituted leather)
Bottled in bond, referring to a type of American whiskey
Bond store, another name for bonded warehouse, where alcohol may be held without tax under strict conditions
"Bonding" may refer to a method for creating electric interconnects:
- Chip bonding, method of wiring some chips (also from different manufactures) together on die an integrated circuit
- Wire bonding, a method of making interconnections between a microchip and the outside world as part of semiconductor device fabrication
- Ball bonding, a method very similar to wire bonding
Channel bonding (or modem bonding), an arrangement in which two or more network interfaces on a host computer are combined
- NIC bonding, an alternate name for link aggregation
Electrical bonding, practice of connecting all metal objects in a room to protect from electric shock

Bond (sheep), Australian breed of sheep
Bond (wine), California cult wine producer
Bonds (clothing), Australian clothing company
Bond Clothing Stores, a former New York clothing company
Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Norwich, England, now called John Lewis Norwich
Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford
Bond Arms, a Texas gun manufacturer
Bond Aviation Group, a British helicopter operator
- Bond Offshore Helicopters, a subsidiary of the above
Bond Cars Ltd, a small scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971:
- Bond 875, three-wheeled motor car
- Bond Bug, three-wheeled motor car
- Bond Equipe, their first four-wheeled motor car
- Bond Minicar, three-wheeled motor car
BOND, RAD software tool
Bond Street (cigarette), brand of cigarette
The Bond Electraglide electric guitar, manufactured by Bond Guitars
Bond Market Association, the former international trade association for the bond market industry

Afrikaner Bond, a political party in the Cape Colony in the 19th century
bonding-studenteninitiative e.V., a German student organisation
Church of the Universal Bond, a British religious group
Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), created By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Bond (for international development), the membership body for UK-based NGOs working in international development

The James Bond series of spy fiction originally created by Ian Fleming
- James Bond (literary character), a British secret agent who is the central character in a series of novels
- James Bond filmography, a British secret agent who is the central character in a series of films
- James Bond stories, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death (usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications)
- James Bond film series, a popular series of 25 films featuring Fleming's secret agent
- Bond girl, the 'love' interest in a James Bond film
Campion Bond, the fictional character from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Bond (band), an Australian/British string quartet
- Bond: Video Clip Collection, a video collection from the band
The Bond, a film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds'
"The Bonding", a third-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Bond Street (film), a 1948 British film

Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London
- Bond Street tube station
Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Bond South Africa, South African campus of Bond University
Bond Education Group, Toronto, Ontario
Bond Head, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario
Bond Head, Simcoe County, Ontario, part of Bradford West Gwillimbury, Ontario
Bond Island, Queensland, an island in the Torres Strait
Bond Inlet, a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region in Canada
Bonds, Lancashire, an English village

Bond, Colorado
Bond County, Illinois
- Bond County Community Unit School District 2
Bond Township, Lawrence County, Illinois
Bond, Mississippi
Bond Hill, Ohio
Bond Court Building, the former name of a highrise in Cleveland, Ohio
Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan
- Bond Falls Scenic Site, a state park for the above waterfall
Mount Bond, a mountain in Grafton County, New Hampshire
Bond's Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, an historic church in Missouri
Bond House (disambiguation), various National Registered Historic Places in the United States