catena

Examples

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• Particularly noteworthy has been the appearance in Germany of geographical periodicals in English: Catena since 1973, GeoJournal since 1977, and Geoforum, which was launched even earlier, in 1970, but later migrated to Britain in a demonstration of the global reach of publishing firms.

  Academic text (2001)

• You gotta talk to Gilbert Catena.

  Public Enemies (2009)

• Did you see Catena's face when we ran off without giving him anything?

  Ty (2020)

• Also, you can consult Aquinas' Catena Aurea.

  Blog text (6)

• In matters of belief and church discipline, arguments have generally tended to crystallize over a fairly long period of time in a succession or catena of official pronouncements.

  Academic text (1995)

• At the same time, he was assembling another work: a biblical commentary in the literary form of a "catena," a chain, that is, a collection of succinct patristic interpretations of each verse of the four Gospels.

  Academic text (2008)

• The research presented a catena of historical events that led to the independence movement.

• Her lecture outlined a catena of ideas connecting various scientific theories.

Synonyms

S

series

vscatena

∞ 1.8

A number of similar things or events happening one after another

focuses on items joined as a continuous connected whole rather than mere succession

C

chain

vscatena

256 2.0

A series of connected events where each follows the next

is the general connected set rather than just dependent ordering

C

chain of events

vscatena

19 3.2

A series of connected events where each one causes the next

is broader, applying to any connected things or ideas not only events

C

concatenation

vscatena

1 9.9

A series of things like events or ideas joined in a chain

is the static connected set rather than the linking process

C

chainlet

vscatena

8.6

A short series of related events or items that connect to a larger series

is the full connected set rather than a small part

How Long

sequence

428 3.2

series

∞ 1.8

catena

9.9

to chain

130 2.3

link

137 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology