concatenation
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See also: concaténation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin concatenātiō. Related to chain.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɑnˌkæt.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /kənˌkæt.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: con‧cat‧e‧na‧tion
Noun
[edit]concatenation (countable and uncountable, plural concatenations)
- (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
- 1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
- 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)
- (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
- 2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376:
- 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.”
- (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
- (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]series of links united
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application
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programming: joining two or more character strings
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programming: result of joining two or more character strings
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