Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONCATENATION

n.A series of links united; a successive series or order of things connected or depending on each other; as a concatenation of causes.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONCATENATION

Con *cat `e *na "tion, n. Etym: [L. concatenatio.]

 

Defn: A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

concatenation

con cat e na tion |kənˌkatnˈāSHən kənˌkædəˈneɪʃən | ▶noun a series of interconnected things or events: a singular concatenation of events unlikely to recur. • the action of linking things together in a series.

 

Oxford Dictionary

concatenation

con |cat ¦en |ation |kənkatəˈneɪʃn | ▶noun a series of interconnected things: a concatenation of events which had finally led to the murder. • [ mass noun ] the action of linking things together in a series, or the condition of being linked in such a way.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

concatenation

concatenation noun a concatenation of events that had finally led to murder: series, sequence, succession, chain.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

concatenation

concatenation noun a concatenation of events which had finally led to the murder: series, sequence, succession; chain, string, train, course, progression; nexus.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

concatenation

con c à t e n á tion 名詞 ｟かたく ｠1 U 連鎖, 連結 .2 C (事件などの )つながり, 連続 ▸ a concatenation of events [causes ]一連の事件 [原因 ]