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Concatenate

n., v.

Pronunciation

/kənˈkætəˌneɪt/

Acronym

Definition

1. A function linking words or numbers together.
2. The act of joining separate text or numeric values into a single string.

Commonly used in programming and excel, the concatenate function joins together variables and text to create new values. Often data is displayed in multiple cells on a spreadsheet, and by concatenating values into a single string can help the data analyst discover important information in the dataset more efficiently.

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