DictionaryRoot: catena
Latin
catena
chain
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noun
concatenation
kun-kat-uh-NAY-shun/kənˌkætəˈneɪʃn/
The joining of things into a connected series.
Etymology
Together and chain first described the state of being linked together. The noun then came to name the resulting series itself: things united in sequence like links in a chain.