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

• IPA: /kənˈkætəneɪt/

Verb

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.

Related terms

• catenate

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative

Translations

link together

• Basque: kateatu (eu)
• Bulgarian: зацепвам (bg) (zacepvam), свързвам с верига (bg) (svǎrzvam s veriga)
• Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl), aaneenrijgen (nl)
• Finnish: ketjuttaa (fi)

• French: enchaîner (fr), concaténer (fr)
• German: verknüpfen (de), konkatenieren (de), verbinden (de), zusammenknüpfen (de)
• Latin: concatenare (la)
• Spanish: concatenar (es), concadenar (es)

computing: to join two strings together

• Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl)
• Icelandic: skeyta saman (is)

• Norwegian: konkatenere (no)

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Italian

Verb

concatenate

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