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re·com·bine

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. recombineverb

    undergo genetic recombination

    "The DNA can recombine"

  2. recombineverb

    cause genetic recombination

    "should scientists recombine DNA?"

  3. recombineverb

    to combine or put together again

Wiktionary

  1. recombineverb

    to combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner

  2. recombineverb

    to undergo recombination

ChatGPT

  1. recombine

    To recombine generally means to bring together or combine once again elements, components, or substances which were previously separated or related in some way. This term is commonly used in various fields such as genetics, chemistry, physics, and astronomy to describe different processes involving the mix or joining of parts, particles, or elements.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Recombineverb

    to combine again

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Recombine

    rē-kom-bīn′, v.t. to combine again.—n. Recombinā′tion.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of recombine in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of recombine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of recombine in a Sentence

  1. Stewart Brand:

    Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine---too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away.

  2. Marcus Blagrove:

    One way [viruses are] generated is through recombination between two existing coronaviruses, so two viruses infect the same cell and they recombine into a ‘daughter’ virus that would be an entirely new strain.

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