(chemistry) The synthesis of a large number of structurally related compounds, especially in the pharmaceutical industry in an attempt to produce improved drugs.

(computer science) Model of computation based on combinators.

(linguistics) A method used to study an unknown language, consisting of archaeological and antiquarian analysis, formal-structural analysis, and content and context analysis.

plural of combinatorial geometry

(geometry, uncountable) The field of mathematics which examines extremal problems of a combinatorial nature expressed geometrically. / (geometry, theory of matroids, countable) A simple matroid.

(algebra) A relatively new discipline in mathematics that combines techniques and concepts from combinatorics and commutative algebra, and in which the geometry of convex polytopes also plays a significant role.