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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recombine

Recombine \Re`com*bine"\ (r?`k?m*b?n"), v. t. To combine again.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recombine

1630s, from re- + combine (v.). Related: Recombined; recombining.

Wiktionary
recombine

vb. 1 to combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner 2 (context genetics English) to undergo recombination

WordNet
recombine
  1. v. undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine"

  2. cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?"

  3. to combine or put together again

Usage examples of "recombine".

Open Innovation companies regard the VC community, and the start-ups the community funds, as mutualistic participants in a complex ecosystem of firms that create, recombine, compete, imitate, and interact with each other.

As these endlessly bumped and collided, they fractured or split or recombined in endless random permutations, but in every encounter there was a winner, and some of the winners grew big enough to dominate the orbit around which they traveled.

Dicken saw that he had isolated a recombined variety of unencapsulated RNA virus from the blood and sputum of all the afflicted children, in titers sufficient to suggest massive infection.

All around her, the atmosphere crackled, popped, boomed and thundered with the resultant explosions as immeasurable positive forces recombined and all the previously expended energy was reabsorbed.

Instead, he played with numbers (the abstract language of music, he had always thought) that combine and recombine in mysterious ways, numbers like the swarming stars that dazzled overhead in the clear Alpine night.

When it reached the edge of the road, the flowing mob broke up, forming ropes and tendrils and lines of people that washed forward, breaking and recombining, probing into doorways and alleyways, swarming, exploring.

All we have to do is clip off the deadly gene sequences with a special enzyme that's activated by the ultraviolet light, recombine the DNA and it's done.

A glow discharge in which ions and electrons recombined at twilight and dawn in the upper atmosphere was offered.

He worked on tiny animals, breaking their heart of hearts and recombining it in new ways.

I mean, to break apart hydrazoic acid and water, and recombine them into air, and use the extra for a nuclear reactor to power the whole thing?

The bioengineers were already working on new microorganisms: shifting, clipping and recombining genes from algae, methanogens, cyanobacteria, and lichens, trying to come up with organisms that would survive on the present Martian surface, or under it.

They arose in the dank dawn out of a sleep without rest to quietly assume the previous day's languid positions in the boat, gazing speechlessly like sated connoisseurs upon mile after absolute mile of bursting, shrieking, pullulating redundancy, verdure without beginning or end, the moss-backed primordial crowded up against yesterday's tender birth, the same random elements combined, recombined in a ceaseless round of genesis and collapse.

Now, we know that exogenous and endogenous viruses—herpes, poxviruses, HIV, SHEVA—can recombine in us.

Recombining reactants from a tuned plasma state offers the same possibilities on an industrial scale.

In the chemicals sub complex a range of compounds such as fertilizers, plastics, oils, fuels, and feedstocks for an assortment of dependent industries were also formed primarily by recombining reactants from the plasma state under conditions in which the plasma radiation was tuned to peak in a narrow frequency band that favored the formation of desired molecules and optimized yields without an excess of unwanted by-products.