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combinatorial Definition

com·bi·na·to·rial (käm′bə nə tôr′ē əl, kəm bī′nə-)

adjective

of or involving combination, esp. mathematical combination

combinatorial Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • chemistry: This money was added to by £ 2 million of money from industry who have an interest in all aspects of combinatorial chemistry.
  • optimization: Viewed in the standard way, EC is analyzed and assessed as simply one method of combinatorial optimization.
  • explosion: Our result is useful to secure existing algorithms from a combinatorial explosion of the number of candidate patterns.
  • optimization: Dynamic combinatorial optimization of a neutral receptor that binds inorganic anions in aqueous solution.
  • synthesis: Thus, there is potential for these methods to be combined with combinatorial synthesis and library design.
  • library: We are also interested in using enzymes to prepare dynamic combinatorial libraries for screening.

Modifying Another Word

purely: But beside consistency checks, there are other, often overlooked, sources of complexity that are purely combinatorial.