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The act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
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combination
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a colour combination/combination of colours (= the colours that exist or that you put together ) ▪ In autumn the leaves create lovely colour combinations. a colour combination/combination of colours (= the colours that ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., combinacyoun , from Old French combination (14c., Modern French combinaison ), from Late Latin combinationem (nominative combinatio ) "a joining two by two," noun of action from past participle stem of combinare (see combine (v.)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In chess , a combination is a sequence of moves, often initiated by a sacrifice , which leaves the opponent few options and results in tangible gain. At most points in a chess game, each player has several reasonable options from which to choose, which ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities a coordinated sequence of chess moves a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; "he forgot the combination to the safe" a group of people ...
Usage examples of combination.
American, from his accent, and Eurasian by the odd combination of slanted eyes that were a bright bottle green color.
The acridity of its oil is modified in the seeds by combination with another fixed oil of a bland nature which can be readily separated by pressure, then the cake left after the expression of this fixed oil is far more pungent than the seeds.
Is it the Actualization of a statue, where the combination is realized because the Form-Idea has mastered each separate constituent of the total?
He got them into the admin office, found Stafford a spare key, and gave him a keypad combination card in case he came in after hours when no one was there.
Moreover, it was this special combination that adumbrated the style of expertise upon which Lawrence, Bell, and Philby built their reputation.
Combination rate-a discounted rate paid by an advertiser who commits to running space in various publications owned and operated by the same company.
The way we had all learned to think about Talents made it easier to accept her as being a combination Pursuivant and Afrit than simply as having seven separate Talents.
The combination of the large armies of Lord Orazhi, the devious cleverness of Lord Toshtai, and the field marshallship of Dun Lidjun was too much of a threat for Patrice and the Agami lords to stand still for.
Finished with cycling the air-lock combination, Councillor Albedo tapped at the invisible key in his palm once again.
The resulting atom combination, -CHO, is called an aldehyde group, for reasons we need not go into.
Animal matter enters into combination with oxygen in precisely the same way as vegetable matter, but as, in addition to carbon and hydrogen, it contains nitrogen, the products of the eremacausis are more numerous, being carbon and nitrate of ammonia, carburetted and sulphuretted hydrogen, and water, and these ammoniacal salts greatly favor the growth of fungi.
But though the experiments which I have made on the decomposition of vapors by light might be numbered by the thousand, I have, to my regret, encountered no fact which prove that free aqueous vapor is decomposed by the solar rays, or that the sun is reheated by the combination of gases, in the severance of which it had previously sacrificed its heat.
Wicked get-down dirty sex portrayed in an atmosphere of wholesome hygienic athleticism was a combination calculated to tease beyond enduring the national cleft.
Few of the men in the valley would have aspired to match her combination of strength, mobile athleticism and sheer brutality in unarmed combat.
The best security practice would be to deploy authentication tokens in combination with a shared secret to positively identify persons making requests.