combinatorial

IPA: kʌmbˈaɪnʌtˈɔriʌɫ

Of, pertaining to, or involving combinations.
(mathematics) Of or pertaining to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets.

Examples of "combinatorial" in Sentences

In this case, the substructure is an object known as a combinatorial line.
In a field called combinatorial chemistry, one subfield is called "phage display".
We now have techniques, because of these rapid methods of synthesis, to do what we're calling combinatorial genomics.
They tried millions of different variations on how to graft (or splice) one onto the other, creating what are called combinatorial libraries.
CHICAGO-A new twist on the ancient board game Go may clarify the complicated mathematics behind games like chess, suggests research from the mathematical field known as combinatorial game theory.
All other novelty was simply combinatorial, meaning that with the number of determining genes large enough, there were presumably sufficient combinatorial classes possible to account for the shape of the normal curve of variation around the mean values for any given trait.