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Definition of Catenoids
1. catenoid [n] - See also: catenoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catenoids
Literary usage of Catenoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Hydromechanics by William Henry Besant (1891)
"certain cases it is possible to connect the wires by one of two catenoids, but,
in the case of the catenoid formed by the revolution of the upper catenary, ..."
2. A Treatise on Hydrostatics by George Greenhill (1894)
"i These catenoids are similar surfaces, and their common tangent cone will have
... At a certain distance of the wire from the water, these two catenoids ..."
3. A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics by George Minchin Minchin (1889)
"... these wires passing through B and C, the catenoids generated by the revolution
of BAC and of BA'C are possible figures of equilibrium. ..."
4. Annual Report by Smithsonian Institution (1867)
"It is thus, for example, that in the experiment above recalled, a plane film is
connected with two films which are portions of catenoids. ..."
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