different between concatenate vs amalgamate

English

Etymology

From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concat?n?re (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + cat?n? (“chain, bind”), from cat?na (“a chain”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?kæt.?.ne?t/

Verb

concatenate (third-person singular simple present concatenates, present participle concatenating, simple past and past participle concatenated)

1. To join or link together, as though in a chain.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, (Penguin 2004), page 182)

     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, computing) To join (text strings) together.

Derived terms

• concatenation
• concatenative
• deconcatenate

Related terms

• catenate

Translations

Adjective

concatenate (not comparable)

1. (biology) Joined together as if in a chain.
   • 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl (page 166)

     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.

Italian

Verb

concatenate

1. second-person plural present indicative of concatenare
2. second-person plural imperative of concatenare
3. feminine plural of concatenato

Latin

Verb

concat?n?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concat?n?

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgam?tus, past participle of amalgam?re, amalgama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl???me?t/

Verb

amalgamate (third-person singular simple present amalgamates, present participle amalgamating, simple past and past participle amalgamated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.

   Synonym: mix

   Antonym: separate

   • 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord

     Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.

2. To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.

Related terms

• amalgam
• amalgamation

Translations

Adjective

amalgamate (comparative more amalgamate, superlative most amalgamate)

1. Coalesced; united; combined.

Further reading

• amalgamate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Verb

amalgamate

1. second-person plural present of amalgamare
2. second-person plural imperative of amalgamare
3. feminine plural of amalgamato