concatenation

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.
   • The Hebrew word for man in general is adam, the word for ground is adamah, and the word for red is adom; so that by a natural and almost necessary concatenation of causes we arrive at the conclusion that our first parent was modelled out of red earth.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 29
   • Try and penetrate with our limited means of the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.1927, Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
2. (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
   • We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”2000, Philippe Byrnes, Protocol Management in Computer Networking, page 376
3. The operation of joining multiple character strings.
4. A character string formed by joining multiple character strings.