Concatenate vs Amalgamate - What's the difference?
concatenate | amalgamate |
To join or link together, as though in a chain.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
As verbs the difference between concatenate and amalgamate
is that concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain while amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.As an adjective amalgamate is
coalesced; united; combined.concatenate
English
(Wikipedia)Verb
(concatenat)- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
* concatenation * concatenativeamalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.