concatenation

concatenation
\ \ [17] A concatenation is literally a ‘chain’ of events or occurrences. It is a derivative of the seldom-encountered verb concatenate [16], which comes from Latin concatēnārechain together, link’, a compound verb formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and catēnachain’ (source of English chain).
\ \ Cf.CHAIN

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  • Concatenation — Concaténation Le terme concaténation (substantif féminin), du latin cum ( avec ) et catena ( chaîne, liaison ), désigne l action de mettre bout à bout au moins deux chaînes. Sommaire 1 Langages formels 1.1 Concaténation d ensembles de mots 1.2… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • concaténation — [ kɔ̃katenasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • v. 1500; lat. concatenatio, de catena « chaîne » ♦ Didact. Enchaînement (des causes et des effets, des termes d un syllogisme). Math. Loi de concaténation : loi associative transformant plusieurs suites ordonnées d un… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Concatenation — Con*cat e*na tion ( n[=a] sh[u^]n), n. [L. concatenatio.] A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. [1913 Webster] The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Concatenation — Concatenation, lat., Verkettung; concatenirter Schluß, Kettenschluß …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • concatenation — index chain (series), conjunction, connection (fastening), joinder, sequence, succession B …   Law dictionary

  • concatenation — c.1600, from L.L. concatenationem (nom. concatenatio) a linking together, noun of action from concatenat , pp. stem of concatenare to link together, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) + catenare, from catena a chain (see CHAIN ( …   Etymology dictionary

  • concatenation — articulation, integration (see under INTEGRATE vb) Analogous words: sequence, *succession, chain, train …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • concatenation — [n] connection, sequence chain, connecting, continuity, integration, interlocking, link, linking, nexus, series, succession, uniting; concepts 721,727 Ant. interruption …   New thesaurus

  • concatenation — [kən kat΄ n ā′shən, känkat΄ n ā shən] n. [LL concatenatio: see CONCATENATE] 1. a linking together or being linked together in a series 2. a series of things or events regarded as causally or dependently connected …   English World dictionary

  • Concaténation — Le terme concaténation (substantif féminin), du latin cum (« avec ») et catena (« chaîne, liaison »), désigne l action de mettre bout à bout au moins deux chaînes. Sommaire 1 Langages formels 1.1 Concaténation d ensembles de… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Concatenation — This article is about the string operation of computer programming. For other uses, see Concatenation (disambiguation). For concatenation of general lists, see append. Programming language comparisons General comparison Basic syntax Basic… …   Wikipedia

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