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Today's Word "concatenation"

A series of links united on

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concatenation \kon-kat-uh-NAY-shuhn; kuhn-\ (noun) - A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

"The process of fossilization and discovery is a concatenation of chance built upon chance. It's amazing that anything ever becomes a fossil at all." -- Henry Gee, 'In Search of Deep Time'

 

Concatenation is from Late Latin concatenatio, from concatenare, "to chain together," from Latin con-, "with, together" + catena, "a chain, a series."


 

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