Concatenate
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 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
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
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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