concatenation
pronunciation
How to pronounce concatenation in British English:
UK [kənˌkætəˈneɪʃn]
How to pronounce concatenation in American English:
US [ kənˌkætəˈneɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- the act of linking together as in a series or chain
Word Origin
- concatenation
- concatenation: [17] A concatenation is literally a ‘chain’ of events or occurrences. It is a derivative of the seldom-encountered verb concatenate [16], which comes from Latin concatēnāre ‘chain together, link’, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and catēna ‘chain’ (source of English chain).=> chain
- concatenation (n.)
- c. 1600, from Late Latin concatenationem (nominative concatenatio) "a linking together," noun of action from past participle stem of concatenare "to link together," from com- "together" (see com-) + catenare, from catena "a chain" (see chain (n.)).
Example
- 1. This operation is called concatenation .
- 2. It was cause by an improbable concatenation of circumstances .
- 3. The arab revolt of 2011 belongs to a rare class of historical events : a concatenation of political upheavals , one detonating the other , across an entire region of the world .
- 4. A warm , sunny day at a particular time and place , as desirable as it may be to human beings , is not a good as long as we are unable to control the natural forces whose concatenation produces it .
- 5. In the following example , name is an identifier that holds a concatenation of the student 's first and last names .