concatenate

con·cat·e·nate

linked together; connected

Origin of concatenate

Late Latin concatenatus, past participle of concatenare, to link together from Classical Latin com-, together + catenare, to chain from catena, a chain

transitive verb

-·nat·ed, -·nat·ing

to link together or join, as in a chain

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concatenate

transitive verb

con·cat·e·nat·ed, con·cat·e·nat·ing, con·cat·e·nates

To connect or link in a series or chain.
Computers To arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list.

adjective

Connected or linked in a series.

Origin of concatenate

Late Latin concatēnāre concatēnāt- com- com- catēnāre to bind ( from Latin catēna chain )

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con·cat′e·na′tion
noun

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

To join or link together, as though in a chain.
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
The Unix program cat is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.

Origin

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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concatenate - Computer Definition

To link structures together. Concatenating files appends one file to another. In speech synthesis, units of speech called "phonemes" (k, sh, ch, etc.) are concatenated to produce meaningful sounds. See concatenating text files.

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