combinatory
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- adjective
- /kəmˈbɪnəˌtɔri/
- Formal
- 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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About the different ways things can be arranged, like the order of items, often in math
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Having parts from more than one style
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Relating to joining things to make something new
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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.