Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Chainshaped; catenary.
- noun The surface of revolution of the catenary. Meusnier found (1776) that every minimal surface of revolution is the catenoid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A
three-dimensional surface formed byrotation of acatenary
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The shortlist is completed by The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, which informs its readers how to "crochet models of the hyperbolic plane, pseudosphere, and catenoid/helicoids", as well as exploring geometry and its historical connections with art, architecture, navigation and motion, and the history of crochet.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Alison Flood 2010
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The shortlist is completed by The Changing World of Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, which informs its readers how to "crochet models of the hyperbolic plane, pseudosphere, and catenoid/helicoids", as well as exploring geometry and its historical connections with art, architecture, navigation and motion, and the history of crochet.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Alison Flood 2010
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