concatenate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

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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.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 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. (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.

   Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative
• deconcatenate

Related terms

• catenate

Translations

link together

• Basque: kateatu
• Bulgarian: зацепвам (bg) (zacepvam), свързвам с верига (svǎrzvam s veriga), навързвам impf (navǎrzvam), навържа pf (navǎrža)
• Catalan: concatenar (ca)
• Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl), aaneenrijgen (nl)
• Finnish: ketjuttaa
• French: enchaîner (fr), concaténer (fr)
• Galician: concatenar, encadear (gl)
• German: verknüpfen (de), konkatenieren (de), verbinden (de), zusammenknüpfen, verketten (de)
• Hungarian: összekapcsol (hu), összeköt (hu)
• Latin: concatenare
• Portuguese: concatenar (pt)
• Russian: соединя́ть (ru) (sojedinjátʹ), свя́зывать (ru) (svjázyvatʹ), смыка́ть (ru) (smykátʹ), сцепля́ть (ru) (scepljátʹ)
• Spanish: concatenar (es), concadenar (es)
• Turkish: zincirleme bağlamak

computing: to join two strings together

• Dutch: aaneenschakelen (nl)
• Finnish: ketjuttaa, katenoida
• French: concaténer (fr)
• German: verketten (de)
• Greek: συνενώνω (el) (synenóno)
• Icelandic: skeyta saman
• Norwegian: konkatenere
• Russian: конкатени́ровать (ru) impf (konkatenírovatʹ)

Adjective

concatenate (not comparable)

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:

     The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

concatenate

1. inflection of concatenare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

concatenate f pl

1. feminine plural of concatenato

Latin

Verb

concatēnāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concatēnō

Spanish

Verb

concatenate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of concatenar combined with te