catenation
Americannoun
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the act or process of catenating.
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Chemistry. the linking of identical atoms to form chainlike molecules.
Etymology
Origin of catenation
1635–45; < Latin catēnātiōn-, stem of catēnātiō; see catenate, -ion
Example Sentences
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Across the shoulder runs one word that Drake inscribed, with a sharpened stick or similar tool: “catination,” a variant of catenation, the state of being yoked or chained.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021
The text is written in the ancient Slavic Glagolitic script, and that sets the tone, texture and catenation of Janácek’s effusive score, with its powerful brass reiterations, exuberant choral outbursts.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2017
For the power of volition is perpetually exerted during our waking hours in comparing our passing trains of ideas with our acquired knowledge of nature, and thus forms many intermediate links in their catenation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
But as those sensations were followed by no movements of the system in consequence of them, they gradually ceased to be produced, not being joined to any succeeding link of catenation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
The whole catenation in proper sequence presented itself in one all-embracing vision—a scene painted on canvas, rather than the logical continuity of a screen picture.
From Prairie Flowers by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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