concatenate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)
- To join or link together, as though in a chain.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182:
- 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.
- (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.
- Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
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[edit]link together
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computing: to join two strings together
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Adjective
[edit]concatenate (not comparable)
- (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
- 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:
- 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.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]concatenate
- inflection of concatenare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]concatenate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]concatēnāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]concatenate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of concatenar combined with te
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