Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Concatenation

Concatenation (-nā"shun) , noun

[Latin concatenatio.]

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