The curve formed by a perfectly flexible, uniformly dense, and inextensible cable suspended from its endpoints. It is identical to the graph of a hyperbolic cosine.
Something having the general shape of this curve.
[New Latin catēnāria, from Latin, feminine of catēnārius, relating to a chain, from catēna, chain.]
cat'e·nar'y adj.
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