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Contrast vs Concatenation - What's the difference?

contrast | concatenation |

As nouns the difference between contrast and concatenation

is that contrast is (label) a difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable 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.

As a verb contrast

is to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

contrast

English

Noun

  • (label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  • #(label) The degree of this difference.
  • #:
  • #(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  • (label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
  • Antithesis.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
  • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
  • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms

    concatenation

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Noun

  • (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)
  • 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.
  • (uncountable) The application of these series of links.
  • (programming) Operation of joining multiple character strings.
  • See also

    * concatenate