What does concatenation mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. concatenationnoun

    the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series

  2. concatenationnoun

    the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc

    "it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances"

  3. chain, concatenationnoun

    a series of things depending on each other as if linked together

    "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"

  4. concatenationnoun

    the act of linking together as in a series or chain

Wiktionary

  1. concatenationnoun

    A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

  2. concatenationnoun

    The application of these series of links.

  3. concatenationnoun

    Operation of joining two character strings.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Concatenationnoun

    A series of links; an uninterrupted unvariable succession.

    Etymology: from concatenate.

    The stoicks affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the elicit acts of man’s will. Robert South, Sermons.

Wikipedia

  1. Concatenation

    In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalisations of concatenation theory, also called string theory, string concatenation is a primitive notion.

ChatGPT

  1. concatenation

    Concatenation is the process of joining two or more things together in a series or chain. In computer programming, it commonly refers to the operation of combining two strings or arrays end-to-end. The term can also be applied more generally to describe the combination of various concepts or elements into a single unit.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Concatenationnoun

    a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession

  2. Etymology: [L. concatenatio.]

Wikidata

  1. Concatenation

    In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining two character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In many programming languages, string concatenation is a binary infix operator. The "+" operator is often overloaded to denote concatenation for string arguments: "Hello, " + "World"; has the value "Hello, World".

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of concatenation in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of concatenation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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