concatenation
- A series of linked or connected things, events, or ideas following one after another.
- In computing, the operation of joining two or more strings of characters end to end.
In a sentence
- The disaster resulted from a concatenation of small failures that individually would have been harmless.
- In the script, the concatenation of two strings produced the user's full name.
Usage note. In general writing, concatenation emphasizes the chained, causal nature of a sequence; in computing contexts it has a precise technical meaning distinct from simple arrangement.
Where it comes from
English concatenation · entered English mid-17th c.
From Late Latin 'concatenatio,' derived from 'concatenare,' meaning 'to link together in a chain,' formed from 'con-' (together) and 'catena' (chain). It entered English in the mid-17th century.