verb

concatenate

kahn-KAT-uh-nayt/kʌnkˈætʌnˌeɪt/

To join things end to end in a series.

The man concatenates the metal links by fastening each to the chain's end.

A man fastens another large oval snap link onto the end of a short chain, visibly joining separate pieces into one continuous series.

Etymology

conLatintogether

+catenLatinchain

+ateLatinpast-participle ending

Together and chain supply the image of joining links into one continuous chain. To concatenate things is to connect them in sequence, each attached to the next rather than merely gathered together.

In context

Postgres Conference47:16

I double click on a bunch of fields, I better choose um, string fields, right? And I actually can concatenate a field with another text

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More examples

This command concatenates the files in the order you specify.
Concatenating two lists preserves the order of their items.
We concatenated the first and last names with a space between them.

Forms

concatenate · concatenates · concatenated · concatenating

concatenation noun — The joining of things in sequence.

Similar words

join: Means connect generally, without requiring an end-to-end sequence.
append: Emphasizes adding something to the end of an existing sequence.
combine: Means bring together, possibly mixing rather than preserving sequence.