Concatenate
kənˈkatnˌāt
VERB
Link (things) together in a chain or series.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES
“One of the first things I learned in my computer science class was to concatenate a list of variables.”
“I had notes from many different sources, so I stopped to concatenate them into one outline.”
“The vacation days concatenated together until they seemed almost identical.”
WORD ORIGIN
Latin, late 15th century
Why this word
"Concatenate" is a very old word with many modern applications. It entered English from Latin in the 15th century — first as an adjective describing things chained together, then as a verb that depicted the chaining. "Concatenate" has become an important verb in the context of digital data....
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