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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Concatenation \Con*cat`e*na"tion\ (-n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
concatenatio.]
A series of links united; a series or order of things
depending on each other as if linked together; a chain, a
succession.
The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation
of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's
will --South.
A concatenation of explosions. --W. Irving.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
concatenation
n 1: the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a
linked series
2: the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or
events or ideas etc "it was cause by an improbable
concatenation of circumstances"
3: a series of things depending on each other as if linked
together: "the chain of command"; "a complicated
concatenation of circumstances" [syn: {chain}]
4: the act of linking together as in a series or chain
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