From the perfect passive participle stem ofLatinconcatēnāre(“to link or chain together”), fromcon-(“with”) +catēnō(“chain, bind”), fromcatēna(“a chain”).

• (General American)IPA^(key):/kənˈkæ.tə.neɪt/

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concatenate (third-person singular simple presentconcatenates,present participleconcatenating,simple past and past participleconcatenated)

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
   • 2003, Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published2004, page182:

     Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectualdelusion, the capture of the mind by false ideasconcatenated into a logical system of unreality.

2. (transitive,computing) To join (textstrings) together.

   Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

• catenate

concatenate (notcomparable)

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb,A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page166:

     The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that theconcatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.

concatenate

1. inflection ofconcatenare:
   1. second-personpluralpresentindicative
   2. second-personpluralimperative

concatenate f pl

1. feminineplural ofconcatenato

concatēnāte

1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofconcatēnō

concatenate

1. second-personsingular voseoimperative ofconcatenar combined withte