catenary

• He programmed the tightest hyperspatial catenary, made sure he had extra dope for the pain of breaking through the superficies on short leash, and settled down to play chess with the guidance computer and trade gossip with the ship's other systems. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• A thick bank of earth had there to be cut through, and a solid mass of masonry built in its place, the rock being situated at a greater distance from the main pier; involving a greater length of suspending chain, and a disproportion in the catenary or chord line on that side of the bridge. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
• At this time, the most reliable and cost effective way to power electric rail is by catenary (overhead wires). —  Teknosis
• Thus, honestly competent sense requires the construction of a kind of intellectual "bridge" to what must become known, but is not sensed: one might suggest the example of the catenary, the funicular bridge which was essential for Brunelleschi's successful construction of the cupola of Florence's —  LaRouche's Latest
• As de Moivre himself formulated the hoax's pivotal assertion, the argument was that the efficient physical infinitesimal of Leibniz's discovery of the catenary-cued, universal physical principle of physical least action, depended upon the evidence of an allegedly "imaginary" magnitude. —  LaRouche's Latest

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