Bond or bonds may refer to:

Common meanings

Bond (finance) In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer ( debtor) owes the holder ( creditor) a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well ...

, a type of debt security * Bail bond, a commercial third-party guarantor of surety bonds in the United States *

Chemical bond A chemical bond is a lasting attraction between atoms or ions that enables the formation of molecules and crystals. The bond may result from the electrostatic force between oppositely charged ions as in ionic bonds, or through the sharing o ...

, the attraction of atoms, ions or molecules to form chemical compounds

People

* Bond (surname) *

Bonds (surname) Bonds is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Bryan Bonds (1913–1989), public servant, college administrator and fifth president of Baldwin-Wallace College *Anita Bonds (born c. 1945), American Democratic politician *Barry ...

* Mr. Bond (musician), Austrian rapper

Arts and entertainment

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 19 ...

, a series of works about the eponymous fictional character *

James Bond (literary character) Commander (Royal Navy), Commander James Bond is a Character (arts), character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ''James Bond'' series of List of James Bond novels and stories, n ...

, a British secret agent in a series of novels and films * Bond (band), an Australian/British string quartet ** '' Bond: Video Clip Collection'', a video collection from the band * Bond (Canadian band), a Canadian rock band in the 1970s * ''The Bond'' (2007 book), an American autobiography written by The Three Doctors * '' The Bond'', a 1918 film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds * Bond International Casino, a former music venue in New York City

Places

Antarctica

Bond Glacier Bond Glacier () is a steep, heavily crevassed glacier to the west of Ivanoff Head, flowing from the continental ice to Blunt Cove at the head of Vincennes Bay. It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946–47), and ...

, at the head of Vincennes Bay * Bond Nunatak, Adelaide Island

Australia

* Bond Island, Queensland, in the Torres Strait

Canada

* Bond Inlet, a body of water in Hudson Strait * Bond Street, Toronto

England

* Bond Street, a major shopping street in the West End of London * Bond Street station, a major tube station in London * Bonds, Lancashire, an English village

United States

* Bond, Colorado * Bond, Mississippi * Bond, Tennessee * Bond Street (Manhattan), New York City * Bond Court Building, the former name of a highrise in Cleveland, Ohio * Bond Falls, a waterfall in the Ontonagon River, Michigan * Bond House (disambiguation), various National Registered Historic Places in the United States * Bonds, Indiana

Outer space

* Bond (crater), a crater on Mars

Brands and enterprises

* Bond (wine), a California cult wine producer * Bond Arms, a Texas gun manufacturer * Bond Aviation Group, a British helicopter operator * Bond Bridge, an ethernet to IR bridge *

Bond Cars Sharps Commercials Ltd was a Automotive industry in the United Kingdom, British car maker based in Preston, Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire. It was founded in 1922 by Paul Sharp. It changed its name to Bond Cars Ltd in 1963. The company was taken ...

Ltd, a small-scale car manufacturer between 1949 and 1971 * Bond Clothing Stores, a former New York clothing company * Bond Education Group, a Canadian operator of private schools * Bonds (clothing), Australian clothing company * Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Chelmsford, Essex, now called Debenhams Chelmsford * Bonds, formerly the name of a department store in Norwich, England, now called

John Lewis Norwich The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company which operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The privately-held publ ...

Education

Bond University Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina, a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland. Since its founding on 15 May 1989, Bond University has primarily been a teaching-focused higher e ...

, Gold Coast, Australia **

Bond South Africa Bond South Africa was a campus of Bond University Australia, located in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa. The campus closed in 2004, after successfully implementing distance studies in the early 90's, extending to SADC countries. Bond South Africa ...

, South African campus of Bond University

Organizations

* British Overseas NGOs for Development, operating as Bond, the membership body for UK-based NGOs working in international development * Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), created by Jesse Lee Peterson

Other uses

* BOND, RAD software tool * Bond (sheep), an Australian breed of sheep * Bond paper, a high quality durable writing paper *

Bond (Chinese constellation) ''Leu'' (or ''Low'') ''sieu'' () meaning "the Train of a garment", was one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions of the traditional Chinese astronomy. It was one of the White Tiger of the West (西方白虎). The asterisms in the Region of ''Leu'' ...

, both a mansion in the White Tiger constellation and an asterism within that mansion * Bond, the manner in which the bricks overlap in

brickwork Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called ''courses'' are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by ...

* The Bond of 1844, a treaty between Ghanaian tribes and the British establishing a protectorate over the Gold Coast.