recombinableadj.
/riːkəmˈbʌɪnəbl/, U.S. /riˈkɑmbənəb(ə)l/ Capable of recombining or being recombined; spec. capable of undergoing genetic recombination.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [adjective] > combined > capable of being > again
recombinable1916
1916 W. E. Castle Genetics & Eugenics x. 134 For several years I have been investigating this question, and the general conclusion at which I have arrived is this, that unit- characters are modifiable as well as recombinable.
1964 D. Michie in G. H. Haggis Introd. Molecular Biol. x. 272 The most important conclusion from this work concerns the attempt to relate the size of the recombinable units, as measured genetically, to the dimensions of the DNA molecule.
1970 J. S. Bruner in K. Connolly Mechanisms Motor Skill Development 79 It is in the altered nature of failure that one sees most vividly the differentiation of a gross act into a set of recombinable constituents.
1997 Genetics 146 541 These genes are clustered in each of two recombinable and independently functioning loci.
2002 Z. Dienesand & J. Perner in R. M. French Implicit Learning & Consciousness iii. 71 We don't require that for something to be a representation it has to be recombinable with other representations in a context-free way.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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