"catenation" meaning in English

See catenation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-catenation.wav [US] Forms: catenations [plural]
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  1. The act or process of catenating. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. (chemistry) The ability of a few elements, most especially carbon, to yield chains and rings by forming covalent bonds with atoms of the same element. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: decatenation, heterocatenation, intercatenation, precatenation Related terms: organic chemistry

Inflected forms

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