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recombine, v.|riːkəmˈbaɪn|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To combine (things) anew.
a1639T. Carew Poems, On Marriage of T.K. & C.C., Which [hands] when to-day the Priest shall recombine [etc.]. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxv. 210 The idea of separating these letters, and of recombining them into other words. 1865Grote Plato I. i. 54 note, Ingredients might be disengaged and re-combined in countless ways.
absol.1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 543 He left out, altered, recombined, and supplied new connecting principles.
2. intr. To enter into a fresh combination.
1859Mill Liberty ii. 85 With what a salutary shock did the paradoxes of Rousseau explode like bombshells in the midst..of onesided opinion..forcing its elements to recombine in a better form. 1881Flower in Nature XXIV. 436 They cannot recombine, and so give rise to new forms. 1910W. M. Wheeler Ants viii. 131 These characters..are relatively stable in particular races or varieties and have a tendency to combine and recombine in endless permutation. 1942J. D. Stranathan ‘Particles’ Mod. Physics i. 27 Ions formed in a gas have a tendency to recombine. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia IX. 811/2 Nitrogen ions may recombine similarly. |