The present participle form of catenate; the action of connecting things in a chain.
From Latin 'catena' with the present participle suffix '-ing', showing ongoing action of chaining things together.
In computer science, when you're 'catenating' strings together, you're performing one of the most fundamental operations—combining separate pieces of text into one continuous chain.
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