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  • noun Plural form of catenary.

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Examples

  • Three thousand hanging strings or "catenaries" totaling 10 miles in length span between the walls of the gallery in precise arrangements.

    Worldchanging: Bright Green 2009

  • Three thousand hanging strings or "catenaries" totaling 10 miles in length span between the walls of the gallery in precise arrangements.

    we make money not art 2009

  • I closed my mouth and studied the silken catenaries.

    Blue Screen of Death and the Spiders of Mayhem 2009

  • "Catena" means "chain" a catenary arc is the shape that a freely hanging chain forms when fixed at each end so I'd guess that "catenate" is either to do with catenaries or with chains.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • Hydrolley promoters overstate the cost for catenaries, and ignore the glaring problems that face fuel cell vehicles - waste.

    Back on Track, Grid Powered, and Gas Free 2009

  • If trolley buses can run via catenaries, why not cruisers, trucks, and automobiles?

    Back on Track, Grid Powered, and Gas Free 2009

  • A row of inverted catenaries is the kind of surface on which you ride a bicycle vehicle with square wheels.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2007

  • A row of inverted catenaries is the kind of surface on which you ride a bicycle vehicle with square wheels.

    How to Ride a Square-Wheeled Tricycle Jeremiah McNichols 2007

  • MacArthur examined the fist-sized links and followed the converging and diverging catenaries of the support cables as they swooped down from the cliffs on either side of the river.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • The spaceport main building was a huge structure with no straight lines; all sweeping parabolas and catenaries, with facets like beaten bright metal.

    Forever Free Haldeman, Joe 1999

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