Definition of Catenaries

1. Noun. (plural of catenary) ¹

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Definition of Catenaries

1. catenary [n] - See also: catenary

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catenaries

categoryless
catel
catelectrode
catelectrodes
catelectrotonic
catelectrotonus
catelog
catelogs
catena
catena compound
catenabacterium contortum
catenaccio
catenae
catenane
catenanes
catenaries (current term)
catenary
catenary bridge
catenary bridges
catenas
catenate
catenated
catenates
catenating
catenation
catenations
catenative
catenative verb
catenin
catenins

Literary usage of Catenaries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics by George Minchin Minchin (1896)
"Let there be two common catenaries with parameters c, ... Hence all catenaries can be traced by simple multiplication or division nom the curve ? ..."

2. A Treatise on Analytical Statics: With Numerous Examples by Edward John Routh (1896)
"Two arcs of catenaries which have their parameters equal are said to be arcs of equal catenaries. Since p cos2 i/r = c, it is clear that c is large or small ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"On the Relations between Orbits, catenaries, and Curved Rays. By Professor JD EVERETT, FRS If the same curve be regarded— I. As the orbit of a particle ..."

4. Applied Mechanics by Charles Edward Fuller, William Atkinson Johnston (1919)
"ARCHES AND catenaries. 185. The Arch. — An arch may be denned as a member, or structure, whose central axis is a plane curve which is attached through ..."

5. Mathematical Problems on the First and Second Divisions of the Schedule of by Joseph Wolstenholme (1878)
"catenaries, Attractions, <kc. 2305. An endless heavy chain of length 21 is passed over a smooth cylinder of revolution whose axis is horizontal; ..."

6. A Book of Mathematical Problems on Subjects Included in the Cambridge Course by Joseph Wolstenholme (1867)
"catenaries. 1276. An endless heavy chain, of length 21, is passed over a smooth circular cylinder, whose axis is horizontal; c is the length of a portion of ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"The catenaries which lie between the two whose ... The catenaries which lie beyond the two generate surfaces whose radius of curvature ..."

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