concatenate

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

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concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

1. 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.

2. (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.

   Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

• catenate

concatenate (not comparable)

1. (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.

concatenate

1. inflection of concatenare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

concatenate f pl

1. feminine plural of concatenato

concatēnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concatēnō

concatenate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of concatenar combined with te