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concatenation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of concatenation

a series of things linked together

a complicated concatenation of events leading to the freak accident

Synonyms of concatenation

catenation, chain, consecution, nexus, progression, sequence, string, train

Words Related to concatenation

belt, circle, cycle, vicious circle (also vicious cycle)

continuum, gamut, gauntlet (also gantlet), scale, spectrum

flow, river, stream

file, line, queue, range, row, succession

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