concatenate

[kon-kat-n-eyt]

verb (used with object)

concatenated, concatenating 

1. to link together; unite in a series or chain.

adjective

1. linked together, as in a chain.

concatenate

/ kɒnˈkætɪˌneɪt /

verb

1. (tr) to link or join together, esp in a chain or series

adjective

1. linked or joined together

Other Word Forms

• concatenator noun
• unconcatenated adjective
• unconcatenating adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of concatenate¹

1425–75; late Middle English (past participle) < Late Latin concatēnātus (past participle of concatēnāre ), equivalent to con- con- + Latin catēn ( a ) chain + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of concatenate¹

C16: from Late Latin concatēnāre from Latin com- together + catēna _chain

Example Sentences

But for most of the last half of the 20th century, both were concatenated by baseball.

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“A deficit of fire, concatenated with the effects of climate change have led us here,” said Don Hankins, a fire ecologist at California State University, Chico.

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In particular, improvements are required to increase the lifetime of the encoded qubits and to allow the possibility of concatenating many levels of error correction.

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Stewart, by contrast, grew up in the cunningly concatenated small town of Indiana, Pa., where his father owned the hardware store.

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This idea does not easily scale to topological codes, but could be investigated for concatenated codes.

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