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recombination

recombination noun: combination a second or subsequent time.

Noun

recombination (plural recombinations)

  1. Combination a second or subsequent time.
  2. The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents.
  3. The reverse of dissociation.
  4. The process by which the plasma of electrons and protons produced after the Big Bang condensed into hydrogen, or the epoch in which this process occurred.

Proper noun capitalized: Recombination

Recombination

  1. The epoch of recombination of the Universe, where atomic matter formed from free particles, combining protons with electrons. One of the Ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when neutral hydrogen formed out of the cosmic soup of protons and electrons in plasma, that condensed out of the energy of the Big Bang. This era produces the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
    Synonyms:
    Age of Recombination, Epoch of Recombination, Era of Recombination, Recombination Age, Recombination Epoch, Recombination Era

recombination meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam

recombination in Hindi

recombination
पुनर्संयोजन punarsãyojan

recombination in Tamil

மீண்டும் சோதல், மீளச்சேரல், மறுசேர்க்கை, மீளக் கூடல், மீளக்கூடல், மீளச்சேர்தல்

recombination in Malayalam

പുനഃസംയോജനം

Examples of recombination in a sentence

  • The nonhomologous RNA recombination resulted in an enhanced hemagglutinin cleavability.
  • The high recombination effect caused slower diffusion of injected electrons in the photoanode.
  • Similarly, foreign genetic material may be acquired at this locus by illegitimate recombination during genome concatemerisation.

All 22 example sentences with recombination

Synonyms of recombination

  • Age of Recombination
  • Epoch of Recombination
  • Era of Recombination
  • Recombination Age
  • Recombination Epoch
  • Recombination Era

Forms of recombination

pluralrecombinations

Plural of recombination: recombinations

Origin of recombination

From re- + combination.

From recombination. The name is slightly inaccurate and is given for historical reasons: in fact the electrons and atomic nuclei were combining for the first time.

Words formed from recombination

Phrases with recombination

Questions about recombination

What does recombination mean?
Recombination means combination a second or subsequent time.
What is recombination in Hindi?
Recombination in Hindi is पुनर्संयोजन (punarsãyojan). See Recombination meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is recombination?
Recombination can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of recombination?
The plural of recombination is recombinations.

Words near recombination in the dictionary

  1. recombinant DNA
  2. recombinantly
  3. recombinants
  4. recombinase
  5. recombinases
  6. recombination
  7. recombination energies
  8. recombination energy
  9. recombinational
  10. recombinationally
  11. recombinations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: recombination (page history and authors); Recombination (page history and authors); पुनर्संयोजन (Hindi) (page history and authors); recombination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); recombination (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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