COMBINATORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does combinatorial mean? 

• COMBINATORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective COMBINATORIAL has 2 senses:

1. relating to or involving combinations

2. relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets

  Familiarity information: COMBINATORIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMBINATORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or involving combinations

Synonyms:

combinative; combinatorial; combinatory

Similar:

integrative (combining and coordinating diverse elements into a whole)

Derivation:

combination (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

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))

combination (a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose)

combination (a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets

Similar:

combinative; combinatory (marked by or relating to or resulting from combination)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Derivation:

combination (the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order)

 Context examples 

This suggests that other co-activators might also have specific repressors, adding another layer of combinatorial complexity in transcriptional regulation.

(PGC1a Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Combinatorial synthesis is not random, but systematic and repetitive, using sets of chemical "building blocks" to form a diverse set of molecular entities.

(Combinatorial Synthesis, NCI Thesaurus)

Collections of different molecules, often produced through combinatorial synthetic methods, used as a starting pool to screen against a desired pharmacological target.

(Diversity Library, NCI Thesaurus)

Resource also provides consultations regarding problems in chemical synthesis and modification, assistance in the spectroscopic characterization of unknown compounds, access to combinatorial synthesis, and support in drug development efforts.

(Organic and Synthetic Chemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists use combinatorial chemistry to create large populations of molecules, or libraries, that can be screened efficiently en masse.

(Combinatorial Synthesis, NCI Thesaurus)