concatenate

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concatenate

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/
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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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Translations edit

link together

Basque: kateatu
Bulgarian: зацепвам (bg) (zacepvam), свързвам с верига (svǎrzvam s veriga), навързвам impf (navǎrzvam), навържа pf (navǎrža)
Catalan: concatenar (ca)
Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl), aaneenrijgen (nl)
Finnish: ketjuttaa
French: enchaîner (fr), concaténer (fr)
Galician: concatenar, encadear (gl)
German: verknüpfen (de), konkatenieren (de), verbinden (de), zusammenknüpfen, verketten (de)
Hungarian: összekapcsol (hu), összeköt (hu)
Latin: concatenare
Portuguese: concatenar (pt)
Russian: соединя́ть (ru) (sojedinjátʹ), свя́зывать (ru) (svjázyvatʹ), смыка́ть (ru) (smykátʹ), сцепля́ть (ru) (scepljátʹ)
Spanish: concatenar (es), concadenar (es)
Turkish: zincirleme bağlamak

computing: to join two strings together

Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl)
Finnish: ketjuttaa, katenoida
French: concaténer (fr)
German: verketten (de)
Greek: συνενώνω (el) (synenóno)
Icelandic: skeyta saman
Norwegian: konkatenere
Russian: конкатени́ровать (ru) impf (konkatenírovatʹ)

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.