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say it: kahm-buh-NAY-shuhn
combination is a noun meaning "a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities". It carries 7 recorded senses.
a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
a coordinated sequence of chess moves
a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
“he forgot the combination to the safe”
a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
“they were a winning combination”
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)
politics
the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order
the act of combining things to form a new whole
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for combination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.