Noun | 1. | combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities |
2. | combination - a coordinated sequence of chess moves | |
3. | combination - a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock; "he forgot the combination to the safe" | |
4. | combination - a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose; "they were a winning combination" | |
5. | combination - an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | |
6. | combination - the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | |
7. | combination - the act of combining things to form a new whole Synonyms: compounding, combining |
COMBINATION. A union of different things. A patent may be taken out for a
new combination of existing machinery, or machines. See 2 Mason, 112; and
Composition of matter.
2. By combination is understood, in a bad sense, a union of men for the
purpose of violating the law.
1. | (mathematics) | combination - A set containing a certain number of
objects selected from another set. The number of combinations of r objects chosen from a set of n is n C r = n! / ((n-r)! r!) where "n C r" is normally with n and r as subscripts or as n above r in parentheses. See also permutation. | |
2. | (reduction) | combination - In the theory of combinators, a combination denotes an expression in which function application is the only operation. |