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combinatory - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective combinatorial , 1.adjective adjective combinatorial , 2.
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adjective combination or combinations; combinative or combinatorial .adjective ability to combine ; combinable , combinational or combining .
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adjective adjective adjective
Etymologies
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combine + -atory
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This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
This is called the combinatory method and it is a fully accepted part of the mainstream linguist's toolkit.
Etruscan 'usil': It ain't the "sun" 2007
K} is called a combinatory base, that is, these two combinators are the undefined constants of CL ¥.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
Likewise chimps make tools, but don't make tools to make tools, and they have a fixed set of vocalizations rather than a combinatory language.
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Note 155: Mary Carruthers tempers Frances Yates's perception of hermetic practices in Lull's combinatory wheels, stating that they "were a common feature of the medieval elementary classroom, precisely for the purpose of memory training."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
Curry had observed in his work on combinatory logic in the late 1950's the analogy between implication elimination in natural deduction and functional application.
Chores 2009
The above correspondence can be modified for other implicational logics and combinatory bases.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
Notice that the numbers in the present representation are terms over a more restricted combinatory base than in the former case.
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
If a combinatory term M is typable (with simple types) then M strongly normalizes, that is, all reduction sequences of M are finite (i.e., terminate).
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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