Concatenation meaning

kənkat'nā′shən, känkat'nā′shən
A series of things or events regarded as causally or dependently connected.
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(countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
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A linking together or being linked together in a series.
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To sequentially link together two or more information units, such as character strings, packets, or frames, into a single unit. Concatenation allows the component units to transverse a network or subnetwork as a single entity, which not only ensures that they all work their way through the network together, but also reduces network processing time and, thereby, decreases latency. See also frame, network, packet, SONET, string, and subnetwork, and T1C.
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(uncountable) The application of these series of links.
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(programming) Operation of joining multiple character strings.
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Concatenation Sentence Examples

  • Chalmers also took part in the Junius controversy, and in The Author of Junius Ascertained, from a Concatenation of Circumstances amounting to Moral Demonstration, Lond.

  • Returns a string that is the concatenation of all parameter strings.

  • concatenation of circumstances.

  • Otherwise the function returns an object without changing the arguments, for example concatenation returns the concatenation of the lists given as arguments.

  • concatenation of events.

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