catenaries
- plural of catenary.
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The most common physical applications of hyperbolic functions are calculations involving catenaries.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Hyperbolic functions can be used to model catenaries.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
High-voltage power lines, chains hanging between two posts, and strands of a spider’s web all form catenaries.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Power is often still carried on lines that hang in graceful catenaries of various depths from poles that lean left or right randomly but rarely stand straight.
From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2012
Every catenary lying between them has its directrix higher, and every catenary lying beyond them has its directrix lower than that of the two catenaries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
