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concatenate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 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. 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:

concatenate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

Meanings

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. 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182:
2. (transitive) To join (text strings) together.
   • Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

Forms

Deriveds

concatenation · unconcatenate · nonconcatenated · deconcatenate · concatemer · concatenative · unconcatenated · reconcatenate

Relateds

catenate

Translations (46)

hu összeköt (link together) · nl aaneenrijgen (link together) · ru смыка́ть (link together) · ru свя́зывать (link together) · pl połączyć w łańcuch (link together) · is skeyta saman (computing: to join two strings together) · ru соединя́ть (link together) · el συνενώνω (computing: to join two strings together) · de verknüpfen (link together) · bg свързвам с верига (link together) · de zusammenknüpfen (link together) · fr enchaîner (link together) · bg зацепвам (link together) · la concatenare (link together) · nl aaneenschakelen (link together) · eu kateatu (link together) · de verketten (link together) · fr concaténer (computing: to join two strings together) · cmn 連接 /连接 (link together) · ru конкатени́ровать (computing: to join two strings together) · gl concatenar (link together) · de verketten (computing: to join two strings together) · nl aaneenschakelen (computing: to join two strings together) · bg навързвам (link together) · ru сцепля́ть (link together) · hu összekapcsol (link together) · pl łączyć w łańcuch (link together) · fi ketjuttaa (computing: to join two strings together) · cmn 串接 (computing: to join two strings together) · no konkatenere (computing: to join two strings together) · es concadenar (link together) · de konkatenieren (link together) · cs zřetězit (link together) · bg навържа (link together) · cmn 串接 (link together) · tr zincirleme bağlamak (link together) · fi katenoida (computing: to join two strings together) · de verbinden (link together) · pl połączyć tekstowy typ danych (computing: to join two strings together) · es concatenar (link together) · gl encadear (link together) · fr concaténer (link together) · ca concatenar (link together) · pt concatenar (link together) · pl łączyć tekstowy typ danych (computing: to join two strings together) · fi ketjuttaa (link together)