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