Catenary [noun]

Definition of Catenary:

arched, rounded line or object

Synonyms of Catenary:

● Trajectory

● Arc

● Arch

● Contour

● Loop

● Swerve

● Sweep

● Hairpin

● Crook

● Bend

● Whorl

● Ambit

● Concavity

● Circle

● Quirk

● Curvature

● Festoon

● Bight

● Compass

● Circumference

● Bow

● Turn

● Circuit

● Vault

● Round

● Chord

● Horseshoe

● Ellipse

● Hyperbola

● Ogee

● Helix

● Flexure

● Curlicue

● Parabola

● Meniscus

● Camber

● Half-moon

● Incurvature

● Incurvation

● Sinuosity

● Curvation

● Rondure


Opposite/Antonyms of Catenary:

● Line


Sentence/Example of Catenary:

The surface formed by revolving the catenary about its directrix is named the alysseide.

How to pass this snow catenary I knew not, for I did not think a human foot could trust itself upon so frail a support.

Soon after recrossing the snow catenary already mentioned we quitted the ridge to get obliquely along the slope of the pyramid.

The only surface of revolution having this property is the catenoid formed by the revolution of a catenary about its directrix.

One of the most laborious and practically useful works of Giddy was a treatise on the properties of the Catenary Curve.

Not at all: the catenary appears actually every time that weight and flexibility act in concert.

The versed sine, or deflection of the middle of the catenary, was 50 feet.