Definition of "concatenation" [con•cat•e•na•tion]

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

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