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Combination
COMBINATION, n.
1. Intimate union, or association of two or more persons or things, by set purpose or agreement, for effecting some object, by joint operation; in a good sense, when the object is laudable; in an ill sense, when it is illegal or iniquitous. It is sometimes equivalent to league, or to conspiracy. We say, a combination of men to overthrow government, or a combination to resist oppression.
2. An assemblage; union of particulars; as a combination of circumstances.
3. Commixture; union of bodies or qualities in a mass or compound; as, to make new compounds by new combinations.
4. Chimical union; union by affinity.
Mix dry acid of tartar with dry carbonate of potash; no combination will ensue, till water is added.
5. In mathematics, the union of numbers or quantities in every possible manner; or the variation or alteration of any number of quantities, letters, sounds, or the like, in all the different manners possible. The number of possible changes or combinations is found by multiplying the terms 1.2.3.4.5 continually into each other. Thus 1x2=2: 2x3=6: 6x4=24: 24x5=120. etc. So the permutations of five quantities amount to 120. The changes that may be rung on twelve bells amount to 479,001,600. And the twenty four letters of the alphabet admit of 62,044,840,173,323,943,936,000 changes or combinations.
combination appears in definitions for these words:
Abstract Abstraction Achromatic Acidifier Acidify Admixtion Ae Affable Affinity Agate Amability Annihilation Aphthong Argentate Argentic Arsenious Atomic Aurate Auric Azotite Baryta Bimedial Blackish Blue Borate Borax Cabala Cacophony Calcario-sulphurous Carbonic Carburet Cat Chimical Chimistry Collectively Combination Combustibility Combustibleness Composition Composure Conception Concurrence Confederacy Confusion Conjuncture Conspiracy Corrosion Create Created Creation Critic Cubo-octahedral Devise Elective Equivalent Ethics Euphonic Experiment Fellowship Fermentation Feud From Galvanism Gas Gasify Gold Grandeur Gum-resin Hepar Hepatic Humorously Hydrogenated Hydroidic Hydrosulphuret Hydruret Hyposulphuric Hyposulphurous Ingenious Ingenuity Insomuch Japan-earth Junction Latent League Logic Machinery Magnesia Mellate Mercuriate Metrical Mineralization Mispikel Mixture Mode Mucite Music Name Neutral Neutrality Neutralization Nickelic Nitrite Nitro-muriatic Noun Occasion Ore Original Originality Oxalate Oxyd Oxydate Partaking Permutation Persulphate Phalanx Philology Phosphate Phosphite Phosphoric Phosphorous Phosphuret Physiognomy Prime Pronounce Protosulphate Prussian Pyrolignite Pyromucite Pyrotartrite Realgar Recombination Resin Resolution Ruby Salified Salifying Salt Saltpeter Sandal-wood Saponify Saponule Saturation Schematism Scheme Signification Solution Stone Strike Suberate Suffer Sulphate Sulphite Sulphuret Syllable Syndrome T Table Tartrateartrite Tense Test Tre Unity Unoxygenated Verdigris Vitriol Water Whole Woots Word Zumate
Abstract Abstraction Achromatic Acidifier Acidify Admixtion Ae Affable Affinity Agate Amability Annihilation Aphthong Argentate Argentic Arsenious Atomic Aurate Auric Azotite Baryta Bimedial Blackish Blue Borate Borax Cabala Cacophony Calcario-sulphurous Carbonic Carburet Cat Chimical Chimistry Collectively Combination Combustibility Combustibleness Composition Composure Conception Concurrence Confederacy Confusion Conjuncture Conspiracy Corrosion Create Created Creation Critic Cubo-octahedral Devise Elective Equivalent Ethics Euphonic Experiment Fellowship Fermentation Feud From Galvanism Gas Gasify Gold Grandeur Gum-resin Hepar Hepatic Humorously Hydrogenated Hydroidic Hydrosulphuret Hydruret Hyposulphuric Hyposulphurous Ingenious Ingenuity Insomuch Japan-earth Junction Latent League Logic Machinery Magnesia Mellate Mercuriate Metrical Mineralization Mispikel Mixture Mode Mucite Music Name Neutral Neutrality Neutralization Nickelic Nitrite Nitro-muriatic Noun Occasion Ore Original Originality Oxalate Oxyd Oxydate Partaking Permutation Persulphate Phalanx Philology Phosphate Phosphite Phosphoric Phosphorous Phosphuret Physiognomy Prime Pronounce Protosulphate Prussian Pyrolignite Pyromucite Pyrotartrite Realgar Recombination Resin Resolution Ruby Salified Salifying Salt Saltpeter Sandal-wood Saponify Saponule Saturation Schematism Scheme Signification Solution Stone Strike Suberate Suffer Sulphate Sulphite Sulphuret Syllable Syndrome T Table Tartrateartrite Tense Test Tre Unity Unoxygenated Verdigris Vitriol Water Whole Woots Word Zumate
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