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teth·ered

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tetheredadjective

    confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain

Wikipedia

  1. tethered

    A tether is a cord, fixture, or flexible attachment that characteristically anchors something movable to something fixed; it also maybe used to connect two movable objects, such as an item being towed by its tow. Applications for tethers include: fall arrest systems, lanyards, balloons, kites, airborne wind-power systems, anchors, floating water power systems, towing, animal constraint, space walks, power kiteing, and anti-theft devices.

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  1. tethered

    Tethered generally refers to anything that is tied, fastened, or bound to something else to restrict its movement. It often implies a physical or metaphorical connection between two things, one of which is usually fixed and the other movable. This term can be used in various contexts including technology, animals, objects or even concepts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tethered

    of Tether

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tethered in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tethered in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of tethered in a Sentence

  1. The Secret Service:

    In an effort to expand upon our current use of traditional manned aircraft platforms to provide overhead situational awareness, the U.S. Secret Service is developing a program to incorporate the use of several types of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and tethered systems, these systems will serve as valuable tools the Secret Service will use to further our protective mission.

  2. David Tulchin:

    The claims here are not tethered to any business or commercial reality.

  3. Graham Forbes:

    Whether their plastic caps are tethered or not, the company still produces billions of throwaway plastic bottles every year, harming our environment, our communities and our climate, and impacting our health.

  4. Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno:

    If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain.

  5. John Yanchunis:

    So many devices are tethered to the Internet, and consumers simply don't have a realization of how that can be so easily exploited.

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