Usually means: Curve shaped like a hanging chain.
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  1. catenarian: Collins English Dictionary
  2. catenarian: Wordnik
  3. catenarian: Wiktionary
  4. Catenarian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. Catenarian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. catenarian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. catenarian: FreeDictionary.org
  8. catenarian: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Definitions from Wiktionary (catenarian)

adjective:  catenary; like a chain
adjective:  (geometry) Shaped like a catenary; following the curve made by a chain or rope when suspended from both ends.
adjective:  (ring theory) Having the property that every ascending chain of prime ideals eventually stabilizes, meaning that there is a finite length for the chains of prime ideals.

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