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
In dreams the catenation of our ideas is very imperfect and perplexed; and the mind, by forgetting its own faint and confused links of association, may generate subjects of surprise to itself.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
We are taught, in the first instance, to observe carefully the phenomena of disease, and, by referring effects to probable causes, endeavour, however difficult the task, to trace their catenation.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
By catenation with stimulating substances in the ear.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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