Usually means: Exchange of genetic material, organisms.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. recombination: Merriam-Webster
  2. recombination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recombination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recombination: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recombination: Vocabulary.com
  6. Recombination, recombination: Wordnik
  7. recombination: Wiktionary
  8. recombination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. recombination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. recombination: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. recombination: Dictionary.com
  12. Recombination (biology), Recombination (chemistry), Recombination (cosmology), Recombination (disambiguation), Recombination (physics), Recombination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Recombination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. recombination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. recombination: Rhymezone
  16. Recombination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. recombination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. recombination: FreeDictionary.org
  19. recombination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. recombination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recombination: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. recombination: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Recombination: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  6. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  7. recombination: Medical dictionary
  8. Recombination: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Recombination: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. recombination: Evolution Glossary
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. recombination: Electronics
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See recombinational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Recombination)

noun:  Combination a second or subsequent time.
noun:  (genetics) The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents.
noun:  (chemistry) The reverse of dissociation.
noun:  (astrophysics) The process by which the plasma of electrons and protons produced after the Big Bang condensed into hydrogen, or the epoch in which this process occurred.
noun:  (cosmology) The epoch of recombination of the Universe, where atomic matter formed from free particles, combining protons with electrons. One of the Ages of the Universe. The cosmic era when neutral hydrogen formed out of the cosmic soup of protons and electrons in plasma, that condensed out of the energy of the Big Bang. This era produces the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

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