concatenation
/kɑnˌkæt.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Hebrew word for man in general is adam, the word for ground is adamah, and the word for red is adom; so that by a natural and almost necessary concatenation of causes we arrive at the conclusion that our first parent was modelled out of red earth."
- "Try and penetrate with our limited means of the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable."
- "We also discuss the faults to which the intermediate systems that execute these concatenation tasks are liable; the consequences of such faults include end-to-end PDUs being misforwarded, proliferating without limit, or simply disappearing into “black holes.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin catēnō Latin concatēnō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin concatēnātiōbor. English concatenation Borrowed from Latin concatēnātiō. By surface analysis, concatenate + -ion. Related to chain.