combination

Noun

Meaning

The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.

The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.

The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.

The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

union association league confederacy alliance fusion coalition combining merger compounding federation confederation telluride miscellany connexion

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Antonyms

division separation fork chessman problem individual

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Hypernyms

alliance unit operation collection sequence coalition

Hyponyms

union temperance fusion mixture mix confusion

Related terms

combine combinative combinatory

Phrases with the word

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Examples

Business is a combination of war and sport. André Maurois

Combination is a soul of chess. Alexander Alekhine

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Hans Hofmann

Skill and assurance form an invincible combination. Dutch Proverb

Infinite diversity in infinite combination. Vulcan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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