| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·cat·e·nate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n-k t n- t , k n- |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: con·cat·e·nat·ed, con·cat·e·nat·ing, con·cat·e·nates
1. To connect or link in a series or chain. 2. Computer Science To arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list. | | ADJECTIVE: | (-n t, -nt) Connected or linked in a series. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Late Latin concat nre, concatnt- : com-, com- + catnre, to bind (from Latin catna, chain). | | OTHER FORMS: | con·cate·nation —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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