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: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)