concatenate

English

Etymology

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

IPA: /kənˈkætəneɪt/

Verb

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 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.
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"

The Unix program cat is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.