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| con·cat·e·nate [ kon kátt'n àyt ] |
transitive verb (past and past participle con·cat·e·nat·ed, present participle con·cat·e·nat·ing, 3rd person present singular con·cat·e·nates) |
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1. bring things together: to connect separate units or items into a linked system
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2. comput link units together: in computing, to link two or more information units, e.g. character strings or computer files, so that they form a single unit
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adjective |
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comput linked together: linked together in a sequence or chain
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| [15th century. < late Latin concatenat-, past participle of concatenare "chain together" < Latin catena "chain"] |
