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鎖鏈 [suǒliàn] — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • concatenation noun A number of things joined together one after another, like links in a chain.
  • loop noun A shape made by a line or path that curves back to cross or meet itself.
  • procession noun A group of people or vehicles moving forward together in an orderly line, often for a ceremony.
  • strand noun One of the individual threads or wires twisted together to make a rope, cable, or cord.

Senses

鎖鏈 [suǒliàn] is used for these senses in English:

  • concatenation (countable) A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
  • loop A complete circuit for an electric current.
  • procession A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
  • strand (genetics) A nucleotide chain.

concatenation — full definition

  1. noun A number of things joined together one after another, like links in a chain.
  2. noun The act of joining a number of things together, one after the other.
  3. noun (computing) The process of joining two or more pieces of text into one.
  4. noun (computing) A single piece of text made by joining several shorter pieces together.

loop — full definition

  1. noun A shape made by a line or path that curves back to cross or meet itself.
  2. verb To make something into a loop shape, or move in a repeating circular path.
  3. verb To play or repeat something over and over.
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