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catenate

[ kat-n-eyt ]

verb (used with object)

catenated, catenating.
  1. to link together; form into a connected series:

    catenated cells.



catenate

/ ˈæɪˌԱɪ /

verb

  1. biology to arrange or be arranged in a series of chains or rings
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. another word for catenulate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌٱˈԲپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t··Բe adjective
  • ܲ··Բe adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of catenate1

1615–25; < Latin ŧٳܲ chained, equivalent to ŧ ( a ) a chain + -ٳܲ -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of catenate1

C17: from Latin ŧāre to bind with chains
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Finally, the authors produced polycatenanes by adding monomers to the solution of toroids, which seeded the formation of new catenated rings, as had been hoped.

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By the greater or less energy of action of the first link with which they are catenated, and from which they take their names; as irritative, sensitive, or voluntary associations.

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Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller.

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Such also are our complex ideas, they are catenated tribes of ideas, which do not perfectly resemble their correspondent perceptions, because some of the parts are omitted.

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This suggested that individual toroids could act as secondary sites from which another ring could grow, thereby forming the catenated dimers.

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