Concatenation

Concatenation - Linking a consecutive series of field values, strings or a combination of both together in order to build a data item or field value (e.g. concatenating City + comma + space + State + space + ZIP Code to form the last line of an address).

Category=Database Management ]

Source: Northwest Database Services, 07 November 2009 11:10:37, http://www.nwdatabase.com/database-glossary-c.htm

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Concatenation - Procedure of linking multiple files or messages together as a single document, often to facilitate processes such as search and replacement, term list extraction, collocation finding, and repetition rate establishment.

[Category=Localization/Localisation ]

Source: Common Sense Advisory, 06 January 2010 11:09:56, http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/Resources/Glossary/tabid/878/Default.aspx

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concatenate - [computing] To join two or more character strings together, end to end; for example, to combine the two strings "spatial" and "analysis" into the single string "spatial analysis."

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 29 February 2012 09:18:26, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation