unconcatenate

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adjective

Not concatenate.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunconcatenate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot concatenate.
verbunconcatenate (third-person singular simple present unconcatenates, present participle unconcatenating, simple past and past participle unconcatenated)

present singular third person unconcatenates · participle present unconcatenating · participle past unconcatenated · past unconcatenated

  1. transitivecomputingTo undo the process of concatenation.

    The collapse argument tells R to “unconcatenate” the individual lines and create a single string vector.

    2014, Larry Pace, R Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 65
    1 more example

    However, since we are going to save this combo box back to the file, this would require “unconcatenating” the names before writing them to file, something we would like to avoid.

    2001, Patrick G. McKeown, Craig A. Piercy, Learning to Program with Visual Basic, page 181

Origin

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APA

unconcatenate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconcatenate

MLA

“unconcatenate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconcatenate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unconcatenate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unconcatenate.

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