Fetter (disambiguation)
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Fetter and similar can mean:
- FettersFettersLegcuffs, shackles, footcuffs, fetters or leg irons are a kind of physical restraint used on the feet or ankles to allow walking but prevent running and kicking. The term "fetter" shares a root with the word "foot"....
are a type of leg restraint - See Fetter (Buddhism)Fetter (Buddhism)In Buddhism, a mental fetter, chain or bond shackles a sentient being to sasāra, the cycle of lives with dukkha. By cutting through all fetters, one attains nibbāna ....
for the Buddhist concept of mental fetter - Fetter v. Beale is an important law case about the crime of mayhem
- The French word entravé = "in fettersFettersLegcuffs, shackles, footcuffs, fetters or leg irons are a kind of physical restraint used on the feet or ankles to allow walking but prevent running and kicking. The term "fetter" shares a root with the word "foot"....
" can mean "of a vowel, [to be] in a closed syllable" - Metaphorically, a fetter may be anything that restricts or restrains in any way, hence the word "unfettered"
Fetter as a Surname
- Alexander FetterAlexander FetterAlexander L. Fetter is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University in California. His research interests include theoretical condensed matter and superconductivity....
, an American physicist - Frank FetterFrank FetterFrank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian School. Fetter's treatise, The Principles of Economics, contributed to an increased American interest in the Austrian School, including the theories of Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich...
(1863-1949), American economist and professor