Noun

An act of following in sequence.

A sequence of things in order.

* {{quote-news

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A passing of royal powers.

A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

(obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

(Milton)

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.