Combination

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making new compounds by new combinations. Boyle. A solemn combination shall be made Of our dear souls. Shak.

2. The result of combining or uniting; union of persons or things; esp. a union or alliance of persons or states to effect some purpose; -- usually in a bad sense. A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth.

3. The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds.

4. The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.

Synonyms: Cabal; alliance; association; league; union; confederacy; coalition; conspiracy. See Cabal.