From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concatenation \Con*cat'e*na"tion\ (-n[=a]"sh[u^]n), noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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 caused 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}]
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