Catenaries

Three thousand hanging strings or "catenaries" totaling 10 miles in length span between the walls of the gallery in precise arrangements. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I closed my mouth and studied the silken catenaries. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hydrolley promoters overstate the cost for catenaries, and ignore the glaring problems that face fuel cell vehicles - waste. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If trolley buses can run via catenaries, why not cruisers, trucks, and automobiles? ❋ Unknown (2009)

A row of inverted catenaries is the kind of surface on which you ride a bicycle vehicle with square wheels. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ Haldeman, Joe (1999)

Among the manifold perfumes of blossoms (on planets everywhere to right and left and behind, extravagantly tall stalks and big MURPHY'S HALL flowers of every possible hue and some you would swear were impossible, dreamlike catenaries of vines and labyrinths of creepers) he caught her summary odor. ❋ Anderson, Poul And Karen (1984)

_ -- If the lengths of the links be assumed indefinitely short, the chain under given simple distributions of load will take the form of comparatively simple mathematical curves known as catenaries. ❋ Various (N/A)

Owing to their hygrometrical nature, the sticky threads are laden with tiny drops, and, bending under the burden, have become so many catenaries, so many chaplets of limpid gems, graceful chaplets arranged in exquisite order and following the curve of a swing. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

It is true, they will not be exact catenaries, but they will depart very little from it; much less than portions of circles will. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

The difficulty you suggest, is, that the rails being all in catenaries, the tubes must be of different lengths, as these approach nearer or recede farther from each other, and therefore you recur to the portions of concentric circles, which are equidistant in all their parts. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

Then they will remount the shells on refurbished trucks with new wheels, gear boxes and overhauled traction motors and install new pantographs to connect with overhead catenaries, as well as new brakes and air compression systems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A third rail, recessed into the track, provides power to the tramsets, making it possible to do without catenaries over a distance of 1.8 km between Place Choiseul and Tours station and helping to protect the environment as well. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Set the length of waves or the angle of catenaries. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I finally got to experience one of their works last Autumn at the Echoes Converge and made of thousands of coloured string catenaries, the installation attempted to create a visual sensation reminiscent of the audio phenomenon of an echo while it kinetically registered the gentle currents of air as visitors experienced its cloud like volume. ❋ Unknown (2009)

From a distance, the 3D array of catenaries suggests a surface or volume; upon moving to its center, it evokes a rolling fog. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Sam] is constantly found [hanging] around [the mall] with his friends. He is such a catenary. ❋ Some Punk Kid (2005)