Meaning & use

Concatenates

verb·Academic

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Links things together in a series or chain, especially strings of text or data.

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The function concatenates the first and last names into a single string.

The report concatenates data from multiple spreadsheets into one file.

A note on using this word

Widely used in computer programming, where concatenation typically means joining text strings end to end.

Words with a similar meaning

joinslinks

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Words with an opposite meaning

separatessplits

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