concatenate
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concatenate
- /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/ US
Where it comes from
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
verb concatenates · concatenating · concatenated
- To join or link together, as though in a chain. 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.
- To join (text strings) together. Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
adjective
- Joined together as if in a chain. 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.
Translations
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verb link together
| Español | concatenar, concadenar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 串接 chuànjiē, 連接 /连接 liánjiē |
| Português | concatenar |
| Français | enchaîner, concaténer |
| Deutsch | verknüpfen, konkatenieren, verbinden, zusammenknüpfen, verketten |
| Русский | соединя́ть sojedinjátʹ, свя́зывать svjázyvatʹ, смыка́ть smykátʹ, сцепля́ть scepljátʹ |
verb computing: to join two strings together
| 中文 | 串接 chuànjiē |
|---|---|
| Français | concaténer |
| Deutsch | verketten |
| Ελληνικά | συνενώνω synenóno |
| Русский | конкатени́ровать konkatenírovatʹ |
Talk about this word "concatenate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/concatenate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. concatenate. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/concatenate "concatenate." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/concatenate.Cite this
@misc{concatenate_2026,
title = {concatenate},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/concatenate},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
