CATENA

catena

(noun) a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

catena (plural catenas or catenae)

A series of related items.

(soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.

Anagrams

• acetan

Source: Wiktionary


Ca*te"na, n.; pl. Catene. Etym: [L., a chain.]

Definition: A chain or series of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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