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concatenation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

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.
  • ✤ 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.¹
• (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
  • ✤ 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.”²
• (programming) The operation of joining multiple character strings.
• (programming) A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concatenātiō. Related to chain.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɑnˌkæt.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /kənˌkæt.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
• Audio (Australian): 🔊
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: con‧cat‧e‧na‧tion

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971) ↩

2. 2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376: ↩

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