combining form

== English == === Noun === combining form (plural combining forms) (grammar) 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:combining form. (computing, typography) A character encoded with a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Thesaurus:combining form combining form on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === References === “combining form”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present. “combining form”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer. "combining form" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011. === Further reading === “combining form”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.