| 释义 |
▪ I. combining, vbl. n.|kəmˈbaɪnɪŋ|
[f. combine v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb. combine; rarely concr. combination.
1542Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 425, I will propound an other example..of more varietie in the Alligations or combinings. 1598Florio, Combinatione, a combining or joyning togither. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 264 Being inflate with the combining of two such mighty kingdoms.
b. attrib. in combining proportions, combining equivalents, etc. (Chem.), the proportions, etc. in which elements or radicals combine with each other.
1866Argyll Reign Law ii. (ed. 4) 95 Each elementary substance has its own combining proportions with other elements.
c. combining form (see quot. 1942).
1884N.E.D. s.v. Aero-, Gr. ἀερο-, combining form of ἀήρ, ἀέρα. 1942Bloch & Trager Outl. Ling. Analysis 66 In Latin and other languages, many words have a special combining form which appears only in compounds (or only in compounds and derivatives)... The foreign-learned part of the English vocabulary also shows a number of special combining forms; cf. electro-, combining form of electric, in such compounds as electromagnet.
▪ II. combining, ppl. a.|kəmˈbaɪnɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That combine; uniting, co-operating; entering into chemical combination.
1819J. G. Children Chem. Anal. 443 Following the number of combining atoms. 1885Athenæum 25 Apr. 531/3 In view of these combining causes. |