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Concatenate

Concatenate \Con*cat"e*nate\ (k[o^]n*k[a^]t"[-e]*n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concatenated; p. pr. & vb. n. Concatenating.] [L. concatenatus, p. p. of concatenare to concatenate. See Catenate.] To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

This all things friendly will concatenate.
--Dr. H. More

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concatenate

c.1600, from Late Latin concatenatus, past participle of concatenare "to link together" (see concatenation). Related: Concatenated; concatenating.

Wiktionary
concatenate

vb. 1 To join or link together, as though in a chain. 2 Computer instruction to join two strings together.

WordNet
concatenate
  1. v. arranged into chained list

  2. add by linking or joining so as to form a chain or series; "concatenate terms"; "concatenate characters"

Usage examples of "concatenate".

They turn them, discard some, concatenate others in an overlapping pattern on the tabletop.

Over the girders of Barley Bridge, the streets concatenate with the everyday, the monstrous and the beautiful.

The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.

Under the watchful eye of the Guards and Inquisitors, Portas was concatenating the components.

The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.

Yet even Covenant's impercipient senses could feel her power thickening like motes of fire concatenating toward Same.

Yet even Covenant’s impercipient senses could feel her power thickening like motes of fire concatenating toward Same.

He talked about the 'undesirability of concatenating implausibilities.

Countless ghostly versions of the chamber stretched away in each direction like the concatenating reflections of facing mirrors, but at the same time, as though some boundary between worlds had broken down, the black mountaintop and its writhing giant prisoner loomed above it all.