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): /kənˈkæt.ə.neɪt/

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 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. 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.

• concatenation
• concatenative
• deconcatenate

• catenate

concatenate

1. second-person plural present indicative of concatenare
2. second-person plural imperative of concatenare
3. feminine plural of concatenato

concatēnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concatēnō