Lexic.us

Definition of Recombine

1. Verb. Undergo genetic recombination. "The DNA can recombine"

2. Verb. Cause genetic recombination. "Should scientists recombine DNA?"

3. Verb. To combine or put together again.

Definition of Recombine

1. v. t. To combine again.

Definition of Recombine

1. Verb. to combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner ¹

2. Verb. (genetics) to undergo recombination ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recombine

1. combine [v -BINED, -BINING, -BINES] - See also: combine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recombine

recombinantly recombinants recombinase recombinases recombination recombination coefficient recombination energy recombination fraction recombination frequency recombination nodule

recombination radiation recombinational recombinationally recombinations recombinatorial repair recombine (current term) recombined recombineering recombines recombing

recombining recombinogenic recombobulate recombobulation recombs recomfort recomforted recomforting recomfortless recomforts

Literary usage of Recombine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great by Robert Cochrane (1887)
"... and magnificent vision, recombine it in the morning, and try it by his waking judgment. That which appeared so shifting, and yet so coherent, ..."

2. Electrical Installations of Electric Light, Power, Traction and Industrial by Rankin Kennedy (1902)
"»By various appliances we can separate the two electricities in a body, and in doing so expend force and do work ; but when they recombine the work is given ..."

3. The Elements of Pedagogy by Emerson Elbridge White (1886)
"The imagination may be defined as the power of the mind to represent and modify or recombine objects previously known. * It is this power to modify and ..."

4. The Elements of Pedagogy: A Manual for Teachers, Normal Schools, Normal by Emerson Elbridge White (1886)
"The mind is also endowed with the power to modify and recombine the reproduced ideas and images of objects previously known. This modifying representative ..."

5. Electricity in Gases by John Sealy Edward Townsend (1915)
"The number that recombine in the time bt as found experimentally is 3.4 x ... the ratio of the number that recombine to the number that come into collision. ..."

6. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1890)
"They apply heat and turn it into steam, then into an invisible vapour, and finally, into its component parts. They withdraw heat, the parts recombine, ..."

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