Concatenation /(-nā"shŭn)/

Con·cat·e·na·tion

Concatenation

n.
  1. 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.
    A concatenation of explosions.