CATENARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catenary mean? 

• CATENARY (noun)
  The noun CATENARY has 1 sense:

1. the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points

  Familiarity information: CATENARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATENARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("catenary" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)