concatenate

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).

verb

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
   Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality. 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 182
2. (transitive, computing) To join (text strings) together.
   Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".

adj

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent. 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166