Concatenate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kÉ™nˈkætÉ™neɪt/

Origin

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre ("to link or chain together"), from con ("with") + catēnō ("chain, bind"), from catēna ("a chain").

Full definition of concatenate

Verb

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
• 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, (Penguin 2004), page 182)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.
2. Computer instruction to join two strings together.Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"The Unix program cat (Unix) is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.

Related terms

• catenate

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative