Crossword-Solution: CATENARY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catenary | a. | Alt. of Catenarian |
| Catenary | n. | The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “CATENARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A curve formed by a wire | 1 answer |
| CURVE formed by uniform chain hanging freely from two points not in same vertical line | 1 answer |
| Curvature of a suspended cable | 1 answer |
| Curve formed by a freely hanging rope | 1 answer |
| Like a chain. | 1 answer |
| Shape described by the [circled letters] | 1 answer |
| chainlike | 2 answers |
| Curve shape | 3 answers |
| catenate | 4 answers |
| Curvature | 22 answers |
| Curve | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CATENARY (5)
The vehicle had a square black tilt which nodded with the motion of the wheels, and at a point in it over the driver’s head was a hook to which the reins were hitched at times, when they formed a catenary curve from the horse’s shoulders.
The answer comes: The focus of the parabola describes a 'catenary,' a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration, so much so that the unit refuses to express it, however much we subdivide the unit.
With this weird number are we now stationed within the strictly defined realm of the imagination? Not at all: the catenary appears actually every time that weight and flexibility act in concert.
But I would rather propose, that you make your middle rail an exact catenary, and the interior and exterior rails parallels to that.
This truly remarkable showing can only be explained by the catenary action of the main steel, and some truss action by the steel which was horizontal, in conjunction with the U-bars, of which there were plenty.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, WP.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1960–2010).