Meaning & use

Concatenating

verb·Academic

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Linking things together in a chain or series, especially joining strings of text end to end.

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The script works by concatenating the first and last name into one field.

Historians described the war as a result of concatenating crises.

A note on using this word

Now most familiar as a programming term, though it originally comes from the Latin catena, meaning "chain."

Words with a similar meaning

joininglinkingchaining

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Words with an opposite meaning

separatingsplitting

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