Definition of Combinative

1. Adjective. Marked by or relating to or resulting from combination.

Exact synonyms: Combinatory
Similar to: Combinatorial, Combinable, Combinational, Combinatory
Also: Integrative
Derivative terms: Combine
Antonyms: Noncombinative

2. Adjective. Relating to or involving combinations.

Definition of Combinative

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or resulting from combination. ¹

2. Adjective. Serving to, tending to, or able to combine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Combinative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combinative

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Literary usage of Combinative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemistry of the Several Natural and Artificial Heterogeneous Compounds by Simeon Shaw (1900)
"combinative POTENCIES OF ELEMENTS. ... the elements respectively has combinative potency, always proportional to the momentum consequent on change of state, ..."

2. The History of Language by Henry Sweet (1900)
"combinative Changes.—The changes we have hitherto considered are isolative as opposed to combinatii'e sound- changes, such as that of (x) into (c) in German ..."

3. A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period: With Full Word-lists by Henry Sweet (1888)
"... combinative. 136. The influence of one sound on another may be either forwards, as when adta becomes adda, or backwards, as when adla becomes atta. ..."

4. A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical by Henry Sweet (1900)
"Internal changes are further distinguished as isolative and combinative. Isolative changes, such as that of OE a into MnE 5, affect a sound without regard ..."

5. The Science of Education, Its General Principles Deduced from Its Aim, and by Johann Friedrich Herbart, Oscar Browning (1896)
"The most general kind of synthesis is the combinative.1 It is found ... In the sphere of speculation the loss of this combinative synthesis may be sorely ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
""We now turn to the invariants, of which there are seven, two being combinative. Let us seek the condition that the point 0 may lie in the plane <f>, ..."

7. A Short Historical English Grammar by Henry Sweet (1892)
"Internal changes are further distinguished as isolative and combinative. Isolative changes, such as that of OE a into MnE 5, affect a sound without regard ..."

8. Treatise on Ceramic Industries: A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and ...by Emile Bourry, Wilton P. Rix by Emile Bourry, Wilton P. Rix (1901)
"Chapters L, Introduction : Laboratory and Apparatus; Elements: combinative Potencies, Manipulative Processes for Analysis imd Reagents, Pulverisation, ..."

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