combinatory
- adjective
- /kəmˈbɪnəˌtɔri/
- Formal
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combinatorio
- Researchers often explore combinatory strategies to enhance data analysis in various fields.
- combinatory composition
Examples
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Hardly lagging behind in productivity is another combinatory possibility of which the Romance languages availed themselves, viz., the prepositional phrase.
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The study focuses on combinatory approaches, particularly in the analysis of linguistic structures.
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But no such combinatory process makes sense among the incommensurable agent-relative values of individuals.
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Another thing that you can compare it with is combinatory logic, where you've got a very small alphabet.
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Kennard quotes from Wollstonecraft's Letters in his exploration of her use of reverie to represent both immediate sensation and the combinatory powers of imagination.
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Furthermore, by utterly dissolving the distinction between the two media in the central icon of the paintings, their combinatory composition embodies a new relation between text and image.
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When the combined visual effects of the boundary-pushing mandalas are considered, we realize the full consequence of the role reversals occurring and reoccurring in a single painting and the rarity of this sort of combinatory composition.
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But in "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs," Davidson convincingly argues that knowing a language is not a matter of knowing "the conventional, arbitrary correlations of a vocabulary, or the combinatory principles of a grammar."
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In mathematics, combinatory techniques are essential for solving complex problems.
Synonyms
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9.3
About the different ways things can be arranged, like the order of items, often in math
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8.1
Relating to joining things to make something new
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8.8
Having parts from more than one style
Relating to joining different parts to work together
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word combinatory comes from the verb combine, which has the part com- meaning 'together' and a root meaning 'to join', so it is about putting things together. That's why combinatory describes ways of joining parts to make new results, for example in math or in language.