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View synonyms for combinatorial

combinatorial

[ kuhm-bahy-nuh-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, kom-buh- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or involving the combination of elements, as in phonetics or music.
  2. of or relating to the enumeration of the number of ways of doing some specific task or of arranging items in a specific configuration.
  3. Mathematics. of or relating to combination, or the modes, properties, etc., of combinations.


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Other Words From

  • com·bina·tori·al·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of combinatorial1

First recorded in 1810–20; combinatory + -al 1
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Example Sentences

“But the fact that they have this combinatorial basis is already very interesting.”

Instead of all the many combinatorial possibilities, many fewer "subspaces" of activity actually arise, because neurons are coordinated, rather than independent.

Those results suggest a combinatorial approach that is worth exploring in patients in the future.

Annealing processors are designed specifically for addressing combinatorial optimization problems, where the task is to find the best solution from a finite set of possibilities.

The team varied these four components broadly in a combinatorial method and synthesized a collection of different α-GalCer derivatives.

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