concatenation
noun
con·cat·e·na·tion
(ˌ)kän-ˌka-tə-ˈnā-shən 
kən-
plural concatenations
1
: a group of things linked together or occurring together in a way that produces a particular result or effect
an unusual concatenation of circumstances
George McGovern was the beneficiary, in 1972, of a unique concatenation of party reform and political accident.—
Garry Wills
Garry WillsAll the present activity has been made possible by a concatenation of relevant technologies.—Peter Gwynne
Peter GwynneThe coast is a concatenation of steep and high headlands dropping to beaches strewn with stone from boulders to pebbles …—William Least Heat-Moon
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: the act of concatenating things or the state of being concatenated : union in a linked series
Mannering by this time was aware that one thought linked strangely on to another in the concatenation of worthy Mr. Bertram's ideas.—Walter Scott
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a complicated concatenation of events leading to the freak accident
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—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
It is presented as a curious concatenation of summits and negotiations, alliances and clients, spies and border posts, ideological dogmas and underground resistance, and a combination of arcane theories about deterrence and some nasty actual wars.
—Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2010
Seeded within that plausible sadness and loneliness and horror and hopelessness is the story of the strange concatenation of events that produced the moment when McCrae found his path to poetry, first as anchor to life and then as avenue to himself.
—Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 27 July 2023
The questionable nature of his death provokes a swirl of memories related to the captain and his possibly unfaithful wife, Corinne (for Georges an object of erotic obsession), but the concatenation of scenes is not investigative so much as intuitive.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 July 2022
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Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2024
It is presented as a curious concatenation of summits and negotiations, alliances and clients, spies and border posts, ideological dogmas and underground resistance, and a combination of arcane theories about deterrence and some nasty actual wars.
—Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2010
Seeded within that plausible sadness and loneliness and horror and hopelessness is the story of the strange concatenation of events that produced the moment when McCrae found his path to poetry, first as anchor to life and then as avenue to himself.
—Wyatt Mason, New York Times, 27 July 2023
The questionable nature of his death provokes a swirl of memories related to the captain and his possibly unfaithful wife, Corinne (for Georges an object of erotic obsession), but the concatenation of scenes is not investigative so much as intuitive.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 29 July 2022
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“Concatenation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concatenation. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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