Hypertext Webster Gateway: "catena"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Catena \Ca*te"na\, n.; pl. {Catene}. [L., a chain.]
A chain or series of things connected with each other.
I have . . . in no case sought to construct those
caten[ae] of games, which it seems now the fashion of
commentators to link together. --C. J.
Ellicott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
catena
n : 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)
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