extended chain

基本解释

The bracelet, anklet has extended chain and the length can regulate by oneself.
手链、脚链都有加长，长短可以自己调节。
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The industry wide synchronized interactions of those local value chains create an extended value chain, sometimes global in extent.
那些本地价值链的全行业广泛的同步交互作用创造出了一个延伸的价值链，有时甚至到达全球的范围。
Processes are coming to play an important role in on demand business transformation, for example in describing an executable long-running process for an extended value chain.
流程在按需业务转换中占有重要的地位，例如为扩展价值链描述长时间运行的可执行流程。

Judge Silberman ruled that under the Wickard precedent almost any activity could be deemed, through some extended chain of causation, to have an impact on interstate commerce and thus be fit for federal control.
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These are firms that sift through the extended chain of participants in an industry, looking for information that in isolation might be meaningless but assembled with other facts presents the next great trading opportunity.
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For example, what does an extended supply chain look like over time when people are tied together in a social platform?
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