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
Fourthly, that if an animal motion be excited by more than one causation, association, or catenation, at the same time, it will be performed with greater energy.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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
Last in thick swarms Associations spring, Thoughts join to thoughts, to motions motions cling; Whence in long trains of catenation flow Imagined joy, and voluntary woe.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus
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