concatenation
  級連連鎖,連結,連續
  concatenation
  序連 連接
  Con·cat·e·na·tion n.  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.
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  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