Home › Words › R › recombinatorrecombinatorrecombinator means anything that serves to recombine a set of elements.EtymologyFrom recombine + -ator.nounAnything that serves to recombine a set of elements.Any of various devices or components that serve to recombine inputs.A sequence of nucleotides that act as a signal for the recombination of amino acids.e.g.“If the receptor can be equated with the recombinator, this would imply that more than one type of recombinator may exist and therefore more than one type of breaking enzyme.” — 1968, William James Peacock, Richard Donald Brock, Replication and Recombination of Genetic Material, page 171:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).