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concatenates

concatenates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of concatenate.

Meaning of concatenate

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".

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Questions about concatenates

What is concatenates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Concatenates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of concatenate.

Words near concatenates in the dictionary

  1. concatenability
  2. concatenable
  3. concatenate
  4. concatenated
  5. concatenately
  6. concatenates
  7. concatenating
  8. concatenation
  9. concatenation tree
  10. concatenation trees
  11. concatenations

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