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concatenation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /kɑnˌkæt.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
• /kənˌkæt.əˈneɪ.ʃən/

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 Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin concatēnātiōbor. English concatenation Borrowed from Latin concatēnātiō. By surface analysis, concatenate + -ion. Related to chain.

Meanings

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.
   • The Hebrew word for man in general is adam, the word for ground is adamah, and the word for red is adom; so that by a natural and almost necessary concatenation of causes we arrive at the conclusion that our first parent was modelled out of red earth. 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 29:
   • Try and penetrate with our limited means of the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. 1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
2. (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
   • We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.” 2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376:
3. (countable, uncountable) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
4. (countable, uncountable) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.

Forms

Deriveds

deconcatenation · reconcatenation · concatenation tree

Translations (40)

de Verkettung (series of links united) · cs konkatenace (series of links united) · ja 連結 (series of links united) · de Konkatenation (series of links united) · bg серия (series of links united) · cs zřetězení (series of links united) · cs spojení (series of links united) · pl konkatenacja (application) · pl konkatenacja (series of links united) · fr enchaînement (series of links united) · fi ketjutus (application) · is samskeyting (programming: joining two or more character strings) · da sammenkædning (series of links united) · ru сцепле́ние (series of links united) · cmn 相連 /相连 (series of links united) · sh ulančavanje (series of links united) · ms penjeraitan (programming: joining two or more character strings) · he הִשְׁתַלְשְׁלוּת (series of links united) · hu konkatenáció (programming: joining two or more character strings) · cmn 連鎖 /连锁 (series of links united) · ru конкатена́ция (series of links united) · nl aaneenschakeling (series of links united) · sh konkatenacija (programming: result of joining two or more character strings) · es concomitancia (series of links united) · pl konkatenacja (programming: joining two or more character strings) · sh konkatenacija (series of links united) · fi ketju (series of links united) · fr concaténation (programming: result of joining two or more character strings) · ms perangkaian (application) · hi शृंखलाबंधन (programming: joining two or more character strings) · pl konkatenacja (programming: result of joining two or more character strings) · ru цепь (series of links united) · sh konkatenacija (programming: joining two or more character strings) · el συνένωση (programming: result of joining two or more character strings) · bg последователност (series of links united) · cmn 連結 /连结 (series of links united) · hi संशृंखलन (series of links united) · eo kroĉo (programming: joining two or more character strings) · fr concaténation (programming: joining two or more character strings) · el συνένωση (programming: joining two or more character strings)