concatenation

Noun

• the act of linking together as in a series or chain

• a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
  • the chain of command
    
  • a complicated concatenation of circumstances
    

• the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
  • it was caused by an improbable concatenation of circumstances
    

• the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series