concatenate

Definition

To join or link together, as though in a chain.

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

Example Sentences

• "Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality."
• "Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring"."

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