Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or involving combinations.
- adjective Relating to the arrangement and counting of mathematical elements in sets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Concerned with combinations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective able to combine; tending to combine.
- adjective of or relating to combinations.
- adjective produced by a process of combining; ; -- used especially in reference to mathematical or statistical processes of computing possible combinations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or involving
combinations - adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to the combination and arrangement of
elements insets
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets
- adjective relating to or involving combinations
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Examples
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We now have techniques, because of these rapid methods of synthesis, to do what we're calling combinatorial genomics.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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We now have techniques, because of these rapid methods of synthesis, to do what we're calling combinatorial genomics.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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We now have techniques, because of these rapid methods of synthesis, to do what we're calling combinatorial genomics.
Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008
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In a field called combinatorial chemistry, one subfield is called "phage display".
NPR Topics: News 2010
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They tried millions of different variations on how to graft (or splice) one onto the other, creating what are called combinatorial libraries.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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They tried millions of different variations on how to graft (or splice) one onto the other, creating what are called combinatorial libraries.
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CHICAGO-A new twist on the ancient board game Go may clarify the complicated mathematics behind games like chess, suggests research from the mathematical field known as combinatorial game theory.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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In this case, the substructure is an object known as a combinatorial line.
Gowers's Weblog gowers 2009
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They tried millions of different variations on how to graft (or splice) one onto the other, creating what are called combinatorial libraries.
The Times of India 2009
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All other novelty was simply combinatorial, meaning that with the number of determining genes large enough, there were presumably sufficient combinatorial classes possible to account for the shape of the normal curve of variation around the mean values for any given trait.
Evolution Sloan, Phillip 2008
tankhughes commented on the word combinatorial
Good word to say.
Double dactly like lexicographical https://youtu.be/J4VzuWmN8zY?t=65
May 7, 2023