Combining form
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 a bound form used only in compounds wordnet
- 3 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."
Example
More examples"Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms."