concatenative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kənˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
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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 Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English concatenative From concatenate + -ive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper.
1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC:
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(not-comparable) Operating by concatenation.
concatenative synthesis
Deriveds
Relateds
catenative · catenate · catenation · concatenate · concatenation