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concatenating

concatenating is the present participle and gerund 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 concatenating

What is concatenating the present participle and gerund of?
Concatenating is the present participle and gerund of concatenate.

Words near concatenating in the dictionary

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

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