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Webster 1913 Edition


Concatenation

Con-catˊe-na′tion

(-nā′shŭn)
,
Noun.
[L.
concatenatio
.]
A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable
concatenation
of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man’s will.
South.
A
concatenation
of explosions.
W. Irving.

Webster 1828 Edition


Concatenation

CONCATENATION

,
Noun.
A series of links united; a successive series or order of things connected or depending on each other; as a concatenation of causes.

Definition 2024


concatenation

concatenation

See also: concaténation

English

Noun

concatenation (countable and uncountable, plural concatenations)

  1. (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
    • 1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
      Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
  2. (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
  3. (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
  4. (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.

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