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concatenate

US/kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

concatenate verb: to join or link together, as though in a chain.

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.
    • 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.2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182
  2. (transitive) To join (text strings) together.
    • Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

Adjective

concatenate (not comparable)

  1. Joined together as if in a chain.
    • The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166

concatenate meaning in Tamil and Kannada

concatenate in Tamil

ஒன்றிணை, தொடு

concatenate in Kannada

ಬೆಸೆ, ಸೇರಿಸು, ಕೂಡಿಸು, ಗಂಟು ಹಾಕು, ಜಂಟಿ ಮಾಡು, ಒಂದಾಗಿಸು

Forms of concatenate

third-person singular presentconcatenates
present participleconcatenating
past participleconcatenated
pastconcatenated

Origin of 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”).

Words formed from concatenate

Questions about concatenate

What does concatenate mean?
Concatenate means to join or link together, as though in a chain.
What is concatenate in Tamil?
Concatenate in Tamil is ஒன்றிணை, தொடு. See Concatenate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is concatenate?
Concatenate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce concatenate?
Concatenate is pronounced /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of concatenate?
The past tense of concatenate is concatenated.

Words near concatenate in the dictionary

  1. concatemerizes
  2. concatemerizing
  3. concatemers
  4. concatenability
  5. concatenable
  6. concatenate
  7. concatenated
  8. concatenately
  9. concatenates
  10. concatenating
  11. concatenation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: concatenate (page history and authors); concatenate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); concatenate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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