Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Concatenation \Con*cat`e*na"tion\ (-n[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [L.
   concatenatio.]
   A series of links united; a series or order of things
   depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a
   succession.

         The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation
         of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's
         will.                                    --South.

         A concatenation of explosions.           --W. Irving.

Source : WordNet®

concatenation
     n 1: the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a
          linked series
     2: the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or
        events or ideas etc; "it was caused by an improbable
        concatenation of circumstances"
     3: a series of things depending on each other as if linked
        together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated
        concatenation of circumstances" [syn: {chain}]
     4: the act of linking together as in a series or chain