Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: recombine
IPA transcription: [ɹ,ikəmb'aɪn]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: recombine
    Meaning: to combine or put together again
  • Synonyms: recombine
    Meaning: cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?"
  • Synonyms: recombine
    Meaning: undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine"
Usage examples
  • Even if the stars stood fast, the motion of the solar system would gradually alter the configurations, as the elements of a landscape dissolve and recombine in fresh groupings with the traveler's progress amid them.
  • Thus chemical reactions are greatly quickened; minerals are dissolved and redeposited in new positions, or their chemical constituents may recombine in new minerals, entirely changing the nature of the rock, as when, for example, feldspar recrystallizes as quartz and mica.