concatenate

American  

[kon-kat-n-eyt] / kɒnˈkæt nˌeɪt /

verb (used with object)

concatenated, concatenating

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

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adjective

1. linked together, as in a chain.

concatenate British  

/ kɒnˈkætɪˌneɪt /

verb

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

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adjective

1. linked or joined together

Other Word Forms

• concatenator noun
• unconcatenated adjective
• unconcatenating adjective

Etymology

Origin of concatenate

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post

“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.

From The Guardian

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.

From Nature

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

From Washington Post

An alternative to topological error correction is concatenated coding, in which the physical qubits in a code block are repeatedly replaced by logical qubits.

From Nature