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 orcombinatorial . - adjective Having the
ability tocombine ;combinable ,combinational orcombining .
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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Examples
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This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.
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K} is called a combinatory base, that is, these two combinators are the undefined constants of CL ¥.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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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
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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
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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
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The above correspondence can be modified for other implicational logics and combinatory bases.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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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
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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
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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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