Meanings
- not comparableLinked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
1 more example
In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper.
1961, Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon, →OCLC
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Italic*katesnā
- Latincatēna
- Latincatēnō
- Latinconcatēnō
- Latinconcatēnātus
- Englishconcatenate
- Englishconcatenative
From concatenate + -ive.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
concatenative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/concatenative
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