Combination vs Concatenation - What's the difference?
combination | concatenation |
The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
An object formed by combining.
A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
(mathematics) One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
(billiards) A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
motorcycle and sidecar
(countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
* 1927 , Albert Einstein, as quoted by H. G. Kessler in The Diary of a Cosmopolitan (1971)
(uncountable) The application of these series of links.
(programming) Operation of joining multiple character strings.
As nouns the difference between combination and concatenation
is that combination is the act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining while concatenation is (countable) a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.combination
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(en noun)Derived terms
* recombinationSynonyms
*(act of combining) fusion, mergerAntonyms
* (act of combining) division, separation * (mathematics) permutationSee also
* permutationExternal links
* (wikipedia "combination") * (pedialite)concatenation
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- Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations , there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
