What is the name of this design pattern?

Question

jQuery uses this pattern. Essentially it involves every method returning a reference to the same object on which the method was called.

myClassInstance
    .DoMethodA()
    .DoMethodB()
    .DoMethodC()
    .CleanUp();

What's this design pattern called?

UPDATE The accepted answer is correct, and here is the link to the wikipedia entry for it - less informative than the link provided in the answer though :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_chaining

Answer 1

method chaining

Answer 2

Fluent interface

Answer 3

its called a Fluent Interface

Answer 4

I've never seen a widely used name for the practice, but personally I call it daisy chaining.

Answer 5

I call it a train wreck.