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Combinative   Listen
adjective
combinative  adj.  
1.
Produced by a combinatorial process. (Narrower terms: combinable, combinational, combinatory, combining(prenominal)) Also See: integrative. Antonym: noncombinative.
2.
Able to combine; tending to combine. (Narrower terms: integrative (vs. disintegrative))
Synonyms: combinatory, combinatorial.





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"Combinative" Quotes from Famous Books



... fiat of evolution. It is the word of God. Combination is stronger than competition. Primitive man was a puny creature hiding in the crevices of the rocks. He combined and made war upon his carnivorous enemies. They were competitive beasts. Primitive man was a combinative beast, and because of it he rose to primacy over all the animals. And man has been achieving greater and greater combinations ever since. It is combination versus competition, a thousand centuries long struggle, in which competition ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... exposed, layer after layer, by his dissecting instruments, he does not pretend to soar any higher in the region of science than the humble level of other mechanical arts, which merely appreciate the fitting arrangement of things relative to one another, and combinative to the whole design of the form or machine of whatever species this may be, whether organic or inorganic. The descriptive anatomist of the human body aims at no higher walk in science than this, and hence ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise


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