Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To combine (things) again.
- intransitive verb To combine again.
- intransitive verb Genetics To undergo or cause recombination; form new combinations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To combine again.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To combine again.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
combine again, especially toreassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner - verb genetics to undergo
recombination
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to combine or put together again
- verb undergo genetic recombination
- verb cause genetic recombination
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Examples
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The mysteriousness of Stonehenge is on par with how peanuts and corn "recombine" in poop.
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Mr. STEVEN JOHNSON (Author, "Where Good Ideas Come From"): Ideas come together from kind of fragments that you borrow from another field or another person that you recombine and kind of remix into a new form.
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The rules of the competition expressly required that every entry "recombine [] and modif [y] existing digital works to create a new transformative work."
Lawrence Lessig: The "Imbecile" and "Moron" Responds: On the Freedoms of Remix Creators Lawrence Lessig 2010
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The rules of the competition expressly required that every entry "recombine [] and modif [y] existing digital works to create a new transformative work."
Lawrence Lessig: The "Imbecile" and "Moron" Responds: On the Freedoms of Remix Creators Lawrence Lessig 2010
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The different strains would mix, or recombine, in the test tube and create an effective vaccine that would grow rapidly.
Edwin D. Kilbourne, scientist who developed flu vaccine, dies at 90 2011
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The flavors combine and recombine in endless variation as you eat, and the textures are all there: crunch, snap, chew, squish.
Wiener's Circle Dubbed The 'Most Depressing Hot Dog Stand In America' Salon 2010
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The flavors combine and recombine in endless variation as you eat, and the textures are all there: crunch, snap, chew, squish.
Wiener's Circle Dubbed The 'Most Depressing Hot Dog Stand In America' Salon 2010
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Like them, they tend to perpetuate their structure and to breed; they too can fuse, recombine, segregate their content; indeed they too can evolve, and in this evolution selection must surely play an important role.
Jason Silva: Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere Jason Silva 2011
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The flavors combine and recombine in endless variation as you eat, and the textures are all there: crunch, snap, chew, squish.
Wiener's Circle Dubbed The 'Most Depressing Hot Dog Stand In America' Salon 2010
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The other option is to extract hydrogen from water using renewable-energy sources ... by the time you use the energy to extract hydrogen from water, transport that hydrogen to where car owners can get to it and then recombine it with oxygen to re-extract the energy the cost becomes astronomical.
Synthetic Fuels Program, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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