(genetics, transitive, intransitive) To combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner. / (genetics, intransitive) To undergo recombination.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recombine

(genetics, transitive) To modify by the recombineering technique.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of recombineer

plural of recombinator

Anything that serves to recombine a set of elements. / Any of various devices or components that serve to recombine inputs.

plural of recombinant

(genetics) A technique, modelled on natural homologous recombination, used to systematically modify DNA

(genetics) Of or pertaining to genetic recombination.

(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).