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noun
1.
the act of concatenating.
2.
the state of being concatenated; connection, as in a chain.
3.
a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events.
Origin:
1595–1605; < Late Latin concatēnātiōn- (stem of concatēnātiō), equivalent to concatēnāt(us) concatenate + -iōn- -ion
1595–1605; < Late Latin concatēnātiōn- (stem of concatēnātiō), equivalent to concatēnāt(us) concatenate + -iōn- -ion
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Concatenation
has a plethora of syllables.
So is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Does it mean:
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
Example Sentences
- Memory… is nothing else than a certain concatenation of ideas.
- Three competing narratives have developed in an attempt to explain this concatenation.
- The process of fossilization and discovery is a concatenation of chance built upon chance.
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Word Origin & History
concatenation
c.1600, from L.L. concatenatus, pp. of concatenare "to link together," from com- "together" + catenare, from catena "a chain" (see chain).
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