Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being concatenated or linked together; a relation of interconnection or interdependence.
- n. A series of things united like links in a chain; any series of interconnected or interdependent things or events: as, “a concatenation of explosions,”
- n. The association of a number of nerve-cells in a series to form a nerve or nerve-tract.
- n. In electricity, same as cascade connection, .
Wiktionary
- n. countable A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
- n. uncountable The application of these series of links.
- n. programming Operation of joining two character strings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- n. the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
- n. the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
- n. the act of linking together as in a series or chain
Examples
“The portentious concatenation is a parallel post by another well-known non-philosopher, P. Z.Meyers.”
“Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.”
“The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation).”
“The concatenation is a rather exciting departure from decades of tradition.”
“The turn to concrete social mechanisms as the unit of social analysis suggests that it is most fruitful to seek out explanations of outcomes as the "concatenation" of a set of common social mechanisms Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.”
“I think the idea of 'concatenation' is a useful way to approach the heterogeneity of the social, but I wonder at the same time whether it doesn't cover over some difficult questions.”
“For astrology pretendeth to discover that correspondence or concatenation which is between the superior globe and the inferior; natural magic pretendeth to call and reduce natural philosophy from variety of speculations to the magnitude of works; and alchemy pretendeth to make separation of all the unlike parts of bodies which in mixtures of natures are incorporate.”
“In Simplicius Fate is the chain of causal concatenation which is inherent in the seed and there - fore considered the ratio seminalis.”
“So you see a-forging one link after another in the chain: Cæsar for a political interest conquers Gaul; thirty years afterward Augustus goes there to seek new revenues for his balance-sheet; thence-forward there are always immediate needs that urge Roman politics into Gallic affairs: and so it is that little by little Roman politics become permanently involved, by a kind of concatenation, not by deliberate plan.”
“This is referred to as "concatenation" and has been an area of significant attention regarding the maintenance of video and audio quality and integrity.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘concatenation’.
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important
shamanism, consol, sanguine, iffy, affinity, concatenation, honed, innumberable, aiden, inexorable, vet, suss and 176 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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The now-you're-just-showing-off ones
schadenfreude, syzygy, ennui, antidisestablishm..., portend, pulchritudinous, callipygian, grandiloquent, pontificate, tintinnabulate, cognoscenti, concatenation and 4 more...
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connexion
link, joining, junction, concatenation, hookup, isthmus, ligament, articulation, node, tie, relation, intersection and 86 more...
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concatenation
concatenation
con - come together
catena - chain
ate - N>V
tion - V>Nconcatenation, oesophagogastrodu..., strengthlessness, concatemers, consanguineously, map kinase kinase..., hyperlipoproteinemia, otorhinolaryngolo..., ovoviviparous, indogermanicum, polymerization, antropyloroduodenal and 23 more...
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Programming Jargon
Stuff that comes up all the time at work.
continuation, data structure, node, closure, compiler, funarg problem, garbage collection, pointer, anonymous function, block, currying, first-class function and 63 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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exlotuseater's Words
autocthonous, anacoluthon, benthic, bactrian, caryatid, chiastic, dryad, dromedary, effulgent, elixir, fricative, fungible and 145 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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New words
Words that are new to me.
autostrada, gimlet, clyster, gravida, skelped, nacreous, susurrus, intransigent, puissant, turbid, plangent, fungible and 99 more...
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vocabulary
verisimilitude, pendulate, moxie, whimper, nary, stevedore, hubris, prodigious, super-injunction, injunction, lashings, fennel and 202 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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List Erine
cool mint antiseptic
shalom, cattywampus, bourgeoisie, aerophile, traverse, grotto, epicurean, ex cathedra, nautilus, epitaph, lathe, continuum and 753 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for concatenation.
alexz concatenation is a concatenation of the words con cat and nation, as well as the letter e
Jan 20, 2013
Prolagus A phylogenetic method based on combining different genes into a single super-matrix, and analyzing this matrix forcing all genes to conform to the same topology.
(Which is bad.) Jun 5, 2010
ladyphlogiston actually, I use it all the time, in the phrase "by a unique concatenation of circumstances"
in other words, there's a long story of meaningless reasons that led to this, but I don't feel like listing them Jul 19, 2008
uselessness Cool idea. I'm trying to think of a practical use for it, or wondering if it's more trouble than it's worth. Apr 30, 2007
jrome "The basic idea is this: Change X number of image downloads to 1 image download by making 1 big image that contains the X images."
http://borkweb.com/story/faster-page-loads-with-image-concatenation Apr 27, 2007