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  • verb Present participle of recombine.
  • noun genetics The exchanging of genetic material
  • adjective genetics That undergoes recombination

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Examples

  • There will be a role for Edgeio-like aggregators to play in recombining and sanitizing those feeds, but the idea of paying a centralized job board a fee of $200 will ultimately become a nonsense.

    Is Mike losing his Edgeio? 2006

  • There will be a role for Edgeio-like aggregators to play in recombining and sanitizing those feeds, but the idea of paying a centralized job board a fee of $200 will ultimately become a nonsense.

    August 2006 2006

  • Though "recombining" elements of popular music is a court case in the making, there has, he suggests, not surprisingly been an enormous interest in creating music for ringtones and for games.

    David Cope: 'You pushed the button and out came hundreds and thousands of sonatas' 2010

  • Although there are many definitions of the word, the one that I personally prefer is this: creativity is the act of taking bits of information -- from your internal store of memories, knowledge, and skills or from the external environment -- and combining and recombining them in novel and original ways to come up with a new idea or product that serves a purpose.

    Shelley Carson, Ph.D.: Creativity in the 21st Century (Part 2): Is the Web a Hindrance or an Aid? Ph.D. Shelley Carson 2010

  • Although there are many definitions of the word, the one that I personally prefer is this: creativity is the act of taking bits of information -- from your internal store of memories, knowledge, and skills or from the external environment -- and combining and recombining them in novel and original ways to come up with a new idea or product that serves a purpose.

    Shelley Carson, Ph.D.: Creativity in the 21st Century (Part 2): Is the Web a Hindrance or an Aid? Ph.D. Shelley Carson 2010

  • It was frustrated ancient scribes who first realized the limitations of literal pictographs and began decoupling and recombining sounds, symbols and meanings—in short, punning—to invent history's first true alphabet.

    What in the Word? Rules For Better Punmanship John Pollack 2011

  • More importantly, it prompts one to ask why recombining these tropes is a worthwhile activity to begin with.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • Although there are many definitions of the word, the one that I personally prefer is this: creativity is the act of taking bits of information -- from your internal store of memories, knowledge, and skills or from the external environment -- and combining and recombining them in novel and original ways to come up with a new idea or product that serves a purpose.

    Shelley Carson, Ph.D.: Creativity in the 21st Century (Part 2): Is the Web a Hindrance or an Aid? Ph.D. Shelley Carson 2010

  • When a coding region carrying two or more recombination sites undergoes an inversion, the protein sequence changes because there is now a new string of triplet codons between the recombining sites.

    James A. Shapiro: DNA as Poetry: Multiple Messages in a Single Sequence James A. Shapiro 2012

  • When a coding region carrying two or more recombination sites undergoes an inversion, the protein sequence changes because there is now a new string of triplet codons between the recombining sites.

    James A. Shapiro: DNA as Poetry: Multiple Messages in a Single Sequence James A. Shapiro 2012

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