catenation

a series of things linked together a catenation of missteps and miscalculations that ultimately grew into a colossal blunder Synonyms catena, chain, concatenation, consecution, nexus, progression, sequence, string, trainRelated Words chain reaction; belt, circle, cycle, vicious circle (also vicious cycle); continuum, gamut, gauntlet (also gantlet), scale, spectrum; flow, river, stream; file, line, queue, range, row, succession