recombination

1. 1.

   (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles

   Broadercombining

   physics

2. 2.

   (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents

   Broadercombining

   genetics

Other forms of recombination

plural

recombinations·

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.

Questions about recombination

What does recombination mean?

recombination means "(physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in recombination?

recombination has 5 syllables: re-com-bi-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ɹiˌkɑmbɪˈneɪʃən/.

Is recombination a common word?

recombination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with recombination?

73 words rhyme with recombination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.