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
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈkæt.ə.neɪt/
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.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, (Penguin 2004), page 182)
- 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.
Derived terms
- concatenation
- concatenative
- deconcatenate
Related terms
- catenate
Translations
link together
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computing: to join two strings together
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Italian
Verb
concatenate
- second-person plural present indicative of concatenare
- second-person plural imperative of concatenare
- feminine plural of concatenato
Latin
Verb
concatēnāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of concatēnō