catenary
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Agnoli, who worked as a carpenter prior to entering architecture, used long spans of wood to create massive trusses and spiraling nautilus shapesand formed brick into catenary arches.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
“I see the stations, the empty parking spaces, the catenary wires that power the trains, and think surely we should put it to use,” Sound Transit board member Claudia Balducci, of Bellevue, said last week.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022
“It hit the catenary wire that runs between the 3 towers,” Parsons wrote in a tweet from the EGS Twitter account.
From The Verge • Apr. 3, 2022
In late works from 2019, a skeleton holds an oversize skull over his groin, and in other works, based on a string draped into a catenary curve, the repetition of the motif creates a veil.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021
There must be two attached alternately to the catenary cable.
From Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
Vocabulary lists containing catenary
Structural Engineering
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Engineering - High School
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