Definition

1. Noun:
   • A combination or set of multiple elements, components, or entities grouped together to form a whole. This is the most general meaning, referring to a collection or complex formed from various parts.
   • A cooperative group or consortium, especially in an economic or industrial context. This meaning refers to a formal association of enterprises or organizations working together, often as a lower form of a cooperative or a trust.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Tổ hợp các yếu tố này tạo nên một hệ thống phức tạp. (The combination of these factors creates a complex system.)
  • Công ty đó là một phần của một tổ hợp công nghiệp lớn. (That company is part of a large industrial consortium.)
  • Trong toán học, chúng ta nghiên cứu về tổ hợp và hoán vị. (In mathematics, we study combinations and permutations.)

Advanced Usage

• "Tổ hợp có lặp" (Mathematics): combination with repetition.
  • Bài toán này yêu cầu tính số tổ hợp có lặp. (This problem requires calculating the number of combinations with repetition.)
• Used to form specific compound terms for large economic entities, similar to a "trust" or "holding" company.
  • tổ hợp dầu lửa: oil trust / petroleum consortium.
  • tổ hợp thép: steel holding / steel conglomerate.

Variants and Related Words

• Kết hợp (verb/noun): to combine; a combination. (More general, often used for the action of combining.)
• Hợp tác xã (noun): cooperative. (A specific, legally defined form of cooperative organization, often seen as more advanced than a .)
• Tập đoàn (noun): corporation, conglomerate. (Typically implies a larger and more complex economic entity than a .)

Synonyms

• Sự kết hợp: combination.
• Nhóm hợp tác: cooperative group.
• Liên hợp: union, federation.

Related Phrases

• Phép tổ hợp (Mathematics): combinatorics (the field); combination (the operation).
  • Phép tổ hợp là một chủ đề quan trọng trong toán học rời rạc. (Combinatorics is an important topic in discrete mathematics.)

Related Idioms

(This word is primarily technical/academic and is not commonly used in idiomatic expressions.)

noun

1. combination, cooperation