concatenation

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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.

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  1. The state of being concatenated or linked together; a relation of interconnection or interdependence. The consonancy and concatenation of truth. B. Jonson, Discoveries. A due concatenation of causes and effects. Horne, Works, V. xxxiii. I never could help admiring the concatenation between Achitophel's setting his house in order, and hanging himself. The one seems to follow the other as a matter of course. Scott, Diary, May 13, 1827.
  2. A series of things united like links in a chain; any series of interconnected or interdependent things or events: as, “a concatenation of explosions,” Irving. That concatenation of means for the infusion of faith, … sending, and preaching, and hearing. Donne, Sermons, vi.
  3. The association of a number of nerve-cells in a series to form a nerve or nerve-tract.
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  • "A concatenation is taking place upon my tympanum Good gosh!" —  033 - Murder Melody
  • You admitted to me yourself that in certain cases about which at first you had doubts you had been finally convinced of the necessity of this concatenation, but the impression made upon you by the performance has again renewed this doubt, to the extent, at least, that you think it advisable, in consideration of the public, to consent to certain omissions in my opera. —  Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
  • Life, so far as the scientific observer can be sure of it, and so far as the artist can control it for representation, is a picture or series of pictures, a dramatic scene or a concatenation of dramatic scenes. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • It may, however, by remote concatenation, and with the aid of great fancy and a little malice, have grown out of a trifling and ridiculous incident which took place at New-York, and which I am sure you have heard. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • This is referred to as "concatenation" and has been an area of significant attention regarding the maintenance of video and audio quality and integrity. —  Broadcast Engineering RSS Feed
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  1. French concaténation = Spanish concatenacion = Portuguese concatenação = Italian concatenazione, from Late Latin concatenatio(n-), a concatenation, sequence, from concatenare, link together: see concatenate, v.
 

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