concatenation

Word family

con·cat·e·na·tion /kɒnˌkætəˈneɪʃən $ kɑːn-/ noun [countableC, uncountableU] formal

SERIESa series of events or things joined together one after another 一连串事件[物品]

concatenation of

a strange concatenation of events

一连串怪事

Examples from the Corpus

concatenation• In the same way, timekeeping is cultural in its origins, a concatenation of accidental events.• This chapter is about the significance of such a concatenation of development activity, and of the potential for links between them.• There was a concatenation of ladies that he squired around for varying lengths of time.• In reality, no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film.• Another property, concatenation, arises when we can add measures together: a feature which attaches only to ratio scales.

Origin concatenation

(1600-1700) Late Latin past participle of concatenare “to link in a chain”, from Latin com- ( → COM-) + catena “chain”

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Corpus

BNC: 34530 COCA: 32013

concatenation