Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Combinative.
  • adjective Combinatorial.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as combinative.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective same as combinatorial, 1.
  • adjective able to be combined.
  • adjective same as combinatorial, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or derived from a combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial.
  • adjective Having the ability to combine; combinable, combinational or combining.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by or relating to or resulting from combination
  • adjective able to or tending to combine
  • adjective relating to or involving combinations

Etymologies

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combine +‎ -atory

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Examples

  • This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.

    Etruscan 'usil': It ain't the "sun" 2007

  • K} is called a combinatory base, that is, these two combinators are the undefined constants of CL ‰¥.

    Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008

  • Likewise chimps make tools, but don't make tools to make tools, and they have a fixed set of vocalizations rather than a combinatory language.

    Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Note 155: Mary Carruthers tempers Frances Yates's perception of hermetic practices in Lull's combinatory wheels, stating that they "were a common feature of the medieval elementary classroom, precisely for the purpose of memory training."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Curry had observed in his work on combinatory logic in the late 1950's the analogy between implication elimination in natural deduction and functional application.

    Chores 2009

  • The above correspondence can be modified for other implicational logics and combinatory bases.

    Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008

  • Notice that the numbers in the present representation are terms over a more restricted combinatory base than in the former case.

    Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008

  • If a combinatory term M is typable (with simple types) then M strongly normalizes, that is, all reduction sequences of M are finite (i.e., terminate).

    Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008

  • It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

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