Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

combinatoriality

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-bi-na-to-ri-al-i-ty
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

8

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its transformations combine to form a pair of aggregates.

Etymology

Etymology tree English combinatorial Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English combinatoriality From combinatorial + -ity.

Inflected Forms

combinatorialities (plural)

Phrases

twelve tone technique

Frequently Paired Words

twelve tone technique serialism

Questions

What does combinatoriality mean?: A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its transformations combine to form a pair of aggregates.
Where does combinatoriality come from?: Etymology tree English combinatorial Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English combinatoriality From combinatorial + -ity.

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