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; 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
This catenation of fear with surprise is owing to our perpetual experience of injuries from external bodies in motion, unless we are upon our guard against them.
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
Thus when vomiting is caused by the stimulus of a stone in the ureter, the sensation of pain seems to be a link of the catenation rather than an efficient cause of the vomiting.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
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