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What is the difference between catenate and concatenate?

catenate | concatenate | Derived terms |

Concatenate is a related term of catenate.

Concatenate is a derived term of catenate.



As verbs the difference between catenate and concatenate

is that catenate is to connect things together, especially to form a chain while concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain.

catenate

English

Verb

(catenat)
  • To connect things together, especially to form a chain.

    • Derived terms

    * concatenate * catenative * catenary *

    concatenate

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (concatenat)
  • To join or link together, as though in a chain.
  • * 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
    • 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.
  • Computer instruction to join two strings together.
    • Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
    The Unix program is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.

    Related terms

    * catenate

    Derived terms

    * concatenation * concatenative