concatenate

verb

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.

   “Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.”

2. (transitive)To join (text strings) together.

   “Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Joined together as if in a chain.

   “The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.”