catenary

Curve that an idealized hanging chain or cable assumes
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catenary

Summary

catenary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (690 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • catenary's image is recorded as Mc Catenary.png[2].
  • catenary's subclass of is recorded as plane curve[3].
  • catenary's subclass of is recorded as transcendental curve[4].
  • catenary's subclass of is recorded as Ribaucour curve[5].
  • catenary's Commons category is recorded as Catenary[6].
  • catenary's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0214q[7].
  • catenary's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300265734[8].
  • catenary's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • catenary's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • catenary's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • catenary's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/catenary[12].
  • catenary's defining formula is recorded as y=a\cosh \frac{x}{a}[13].
  • catenary's MathWorld ID is recorded as Catenary[14].
  • catenary's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as catenaries[15].
  • catenary's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[16].
  • catenary's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 29279314[17].
  • catenary's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/15129[18].
  • catenary's PlanetMath ID is recorded as Catenary[19].
  • catenary's PlanetMath ID is recorded as EquationOfCatenaryViaCalculusOfVariations[20].
  • catenary's Lex ID is recorded as kædelinje[21].
  • catenary's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 13891246-n[22].
  • catenary's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C29279314[23].
  • catenary's Lexikon der Mathematik entry ID is recorded as 5217[24].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for catenary include catenary arch[25] and Catenary Nunatak[26], a nunatak[27].

Why It Matters

catenary ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (690 views/month).[1] catenary has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] catenary is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for catenary include catenary arch[25] and Catenary Nunatak[26], a nunatak[27].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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