noun

concatenation

concatenation, linking, series

The story is a concatenation of events.

The story is a concatenation of events.

String concatenation is a common programming task.

String concatenation is a common programming task.

a concatenation of ((sth.)) a series of (sth.) Life is just a concatenation of random choices.

Synonyms: series, sequence, chain, linking

From Latin 'con-' (together) + 'catena' (chain). Literally 'to link together in a chain'.

Picture a 'chain' (Latin: catena) being linked 'together' (con-). It's often used in computer science.

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