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Concatenate

//kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt// adj, verb

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Adjective

1
Joined together as if in a chain. not-comparable
"The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent."

Verb

1
To join or link together, as though in a chain.
"Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality."
2
add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series wordnet
3
To join (text strings) together. transitive
"Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring"."
4
combine two strings to form a single one wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

Etymology 2

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

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