Thesaurus: combination

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1. n. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
2. n. The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense.
3. n. The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.
4. n. The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.
5. n. a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
6. n. a coordinated sequence of chess moves
7. n. a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
8. n. a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
9. n. an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)
10. n. the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
11. n. the act of combining things to form a new whole