Hypertext Webster Gateway: "concatenation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation
of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's
will. --South.
A concatenation of explosions. --W. Irving.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
concatenation
n 1: the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a
linked series
2: the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or
events or ideas etc; "it was cause by an improbable
concatenation of circumstances"
3: a series of things depending on each other as if linked
together: "the chain of command"; "a complicated
concatenation of circumstances" [syn: {chain}]
4: the act of linking together as in a series or chain
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