concatenation

A series of interconnected things or events linked together.

• concatenate/kənˈkætɪneɪt/(v)连接

• concatenation of events
• concatenation of circumstances
• concatenation of errors
• unfortunate concatenation

1. 1.The disaster was caused by a concatenation of small failures, each one triggering the next. (chain of linked events)
2. 2.An unlikely concatenation of circumstances led to their meeting after 20 years apart. (series of connected events)

• chain/tʃeɪn/— linked series
• sequence/ˈsiːkwəns/— ordered series
• series/ˈsɪəriːz/— number of related things

from Latin "concatenare" — con- (together) + catena (chain) — to link together in a chain