concatenating

Linking end-to-end

Concatenating is joining things together in a series or chain.

The term appears most often in computing, where concatenating strings means linking text segments end to end: concatenating "hello" and "world" produces "helloworld".

More broadly, anything arranged in linked sequence can be concatenated.

sensename

linking

Forming a connection

merging · appending · chaining · stringing · combining · attaching · coupling · uniting · sequencing · assembling

sequence

chain

Linked segments forming length

string · train · stream · lineup · queue · thread · cascade · continuum · array · order

programming

operator

One who works machinery

expression · command · script · code · SQL · Excel · Python · JavaScript · formula · query

data

strings

Thin flexible lines

  • textWritten or printed words
  • arraysOrdered element collections
  • filesStored data collections

fields · records · columns · rows · values · characters · bytes · segments · datasets · lists

Opposites
joining vs. separating

concatenatingsplitting

Dividing into parts

separating · dividing · parsing · segmenting · partitioning

combining vs. keeping distinct

concatenatingdisconnecting

Breaking an established link

unlinking · isolating · segregating · detaching · decoupling

Family

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