adjective Of or pertaining to more than one chain.
multichain polyamino acids
adjective Of a Markov chain, consisting of two or more closed sets of recurrent states plus (optionally) a set of states that do not belong to any of the closed sets.
multichain Markov chain
noun A multichain Markov chain.
noun An ordered subset of a poset; a generalization of a chain that allows inequalities that are not strict.