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from The Century Dictionary.

noun The state of being concatenated or linked together; a relation of interconnection or interdependence.
noun A series of things united like links in a chain; any series of interconnected or interdependent things or events: as, “a concatenation of explosions,”
noun The association of a number of nerve-cells in a series to form a nerve or nerve-tract.
noun In electricity, same as cascade connection, .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun countable A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
noun uncountable The application of these series of links.
noun programming Operation of joining two character strings.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
noun the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
noun the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
noun the act of linking together as in a series or chain

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The portentious concatenation is a parallel post by another well-known non-philosopher, P. Z.Meyers.

October 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009
Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008
Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.

St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation).

Recently Uploaded Slideshows Elifa 2009
The concatenation is a rather exciting departure from decades of tradition.

Film School Rejects 2008
The turn to concrete social mechanisms as the unit of social analysis suggests that it is most fruitful to seek out explanations of outcomes as the "concatenation" of a set of common social mechanisms Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

Processes versus structures Daniel Little 2008
The turn to concrete social mechanisms as the unit of social analysis suggests that it is most fruitful to seek out explanations of outcomes as the "concatenation" of a set of common social mechanisms Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

Archive 2008-03-01 Daniel Little 2008
I think the idea of 'concatenation' is a useful way to approach the heterogeneity of the social, but I wonder at the same time whether it doesn't cover over some difficult questions.

Heterogeneity of the social Daniel Little 2008
For astrology pretendeth to discover that correspondence or concatenation which is between the superior globe and the inferior; natural magic pretendeth to call and reduce natural philosophy from variety of speculations to the magnitude of works; and alchemy pretendeth to make separation of all the unlike parts of bodies which in mixtures of natures are incorporate.

The Advancement of Learning 2003
In Simplicius Fate is the chain of causal concatenation which is inherent in the seed and there - fore considered the ratio seminalis.

FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

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jrome commented on the word concatenation

"The basic idea is this: Change X number of image downloads to 1 image download by making 1 big image that contains the X images."
http://borkweb.com/story/faster-page-loads-with-image-concatenation

April 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word concatenation

Cool idea. I'm trying to think of a practical use for it, or wondering if it's more trouble than it's worth.

April 30, 2007
ladyphlogiston commented on the word concatenation

actually, I use it all the time, in the phrase "by a unique concatenation of circumstances"
in other words, there's a long story of meaningless reasons that led to this, but I don't feel like listing them

July 20, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word concatenation

A phylogenetic method based on combining different genes into a single super-matrix, and analyzing this matrix forcing all genes to conform to the same topology.
(Which is bad.)

June 5, 2010
alexz commented on the word concatenation

concatenation is a concatenation of the words con cat and nation, as well as the letter e

January 20, 2013