concatenation

WOTD – 14 January 2006    

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɑn.ˌkæt.ɪ.ˈneɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

concatenation (countable and uncountable; plural concatenations)

1. (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
   • 1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)

     Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

2. (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
3. (programming) Operation of joining two character strings.

Translations

series of links united

• Bulgarian: серия (bg) f (serija), последователност (bg) (posledovatelnost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 連鎖 (cmn), 连锁 (cmn) (liánsuǒ), 連結 (cmn), 连结 (cmn) (liánjié), 相連 (cmn), 相连 (cmn) (xiānglián)

• Czech: konkatenace (cs) f, spojení (cs) n, zřetězení (cs) n
• Dutch: aaneenschakeling (nl)

• Finnish: ketju (fi)
• French: enchaînement (fr) m
• German: Verkettung (de) f, Konkatenation (de) f
• Japanese: 連結 (ja) (れんけつ, renketu)
• Russian: сцепление (ru) (sceplénije) n , конкатенация (ru) (konkatenácija) f , цепь (ru) (cep') f 

application

• Finnish: ketjutus (fi)

programming: joining two character strings

• Icelandic: samskeyting (is) f

See also

• concatenate