The sounds produced by the soloists were fed into a computer and recombined with those produced by the entire group.

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When the reflected object beam and the reference beam are recombined, they create an interference pattern that encodes the 3-D image.

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In the same way, metadata for the content we intend to move to many locations signals how it should be recombined depending on its context.

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Before the web, the metaphor of the melting pot where individual ethnic identities broke down and recombined into a new national identity made some sense.

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Recombined viruses often have properties present in neither parent.

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As we learned during the subprime mortgage crash, bad loans get sliced and diced, recombined and repackaged, into bonds whose contents are not always understood by the pension funds and insurance companies that buy them.

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Both are digital systems, in which words or base pairs are recombined to make an infinite possibility of messages. (Elsewhere I once noted the numerical similarity between Shakespeare's vocabulary of about 20, 000 distinct words and his genome of about 21, 000 genes).

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