English Dictionary

combining form

名詞

(grammar) A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.

日本語の意味

結合形：単独では独立した単語として用いられず、他の語や別の結合形、接辞と組み合わせて新たな単語を形成する語素。 / 結合語素：単独では意味をなさず、他の語と連結することで語を作り出す構成要素。

Linguistics students often analyze a combining form to understand how it contributes to word formation.

言語学の学生は、語形成にどのように寄与するかを理解するために結合形を分析することがよくあります。

意味（1）

(grammar) A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.

Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms.

意味（2）

(computing, typography) A character encoded from a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.

As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text.

combining forms （ plural ）