combination

Noun

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose
  • they were a winning combination
    

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock
  • he forgot the combination to the safe
    

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  combining , compounding