Concatenation vs Catenation - What's the difference?
concatenation | catenation |
(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.
The act or process of catenating.
(chemistry) The ability of a few elements, most especially carbon, to yield chains and rings by forming covalent bonds with atoms of the same element.
As nouns the difference between concatenation and catenation
is that concatenation is a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession while catenation is the act or process of catenating.concatenation
English
(Wikipedia)Noun
- 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.