recombined; recombining; recombines

transitive verb

1
: to combine again or anew
2
: to cause to undergo recombination

intransitive verb

: to undergo recombination

Examples of recombine in a Sentence

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This has caused executives to clamor for consolidation – much like the bigger media companies of Warner Bros. Discovery , Paramount Global and Comcast ‘s NBCUniversal, which also want to recombine declining cable assets. Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024 Instead of cutting up a wafer into chips, packaging those chips with High Bandwidth Memory, installing them onto a board into a computer, and then recombining hundreds of the chips to talk to each other over an expensive network, why not just interconnect the chips resident on the wafer? Karl Freund, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Even genes involved in gonadal development and hormone synthesis can be found on most any chromosome, mapping to locations throughout the genome that freely recombine. Donna L. Maney, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025 The sensors have these Schrödinger’s cat–like states where an atom flies down separate paths and then is recombined. IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for recombine

Word History

First Known Use

1619, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

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The first known use of recombine was in 1619

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“Recombine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recombine. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

recombine

verb
1
: to combine again or anew
2
: to undergo or cause to undergo recombination

Medical Definition

recombine

verb
recombined; recombining

transitive verb

: to cause to undergo recombination

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