combining

Definitions of combining

1. noun

   the act of combining things to form a new whole
   synonyms: combination, compounding

   types:

   affixation, attachment

   the act of attaching or affixing something

   confusion

   an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended

   admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture

   the act of mixing together

   fusion

   the act of fusing (or melting) together

   blend, blending

   the act of blending components together thoroughly

   interspersal, interspersion

   the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things

   temperance

   the act of tempering

   conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting

   the act of making or becoming a single unit

   consolidation, integration

   the act of combining into an integral whole

   graft, grafting

   the act of grafting something onto something else

   babel

   a confusion of voices and other sounds

   confluence, conflux, merging

   a flowing together

   homogenisation

   the act of causing something to have the same consistent makeup throughout

   coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination

   the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts

   reunification, reunion

   the act of coming together again

   tribalisation, tribalization

   the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis

   umbrella

   having the function of uniting a group of similar things

   centralisation, centralization

   the act of consolidating power under a central control

   incorporation

   consolidating two or more things; union in (or into) one body

   amalgamation, merger, uniting

   the combination of two or more commercial companies

   vertical combination, vertical integration

   absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution

   horizontal combination, horizontal integration

   absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level

   type of:

   change of integrity

   the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something
2. noun

   an occurrence that results in things being united
   synonyms: combine

   types:

   recombination

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

   recombination

   (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

   consolidation

   combining into a solid mass

   mix, mixture

   an event that combines things in a mixture

   conglobation, conglomeration

   an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass

   concoction

   an occurrence of an unusual mixture

   blend

   an occurrence of thorough mixing

   type of:

   union

   the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts