Combine

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Combine may refer to:

The general of concept of bringing things together, or merging them

Technical or technological

Combine harvester, used in agriculture
Combine car, a type of railway car
Diplexer (sometimes called a combiner), a device that combines radio frequency outputs
Combine painting, type of painting in which 3-dimensional objects are part of the painted surface, closely associated with Robert Rauschenberg

Administrative or organizational

Combine (enterprise), commercial institutions, especially in countries that belonged to the Soviet Bloc
The act of forming a trade union

Sports

In sports, the term "combine" refers to a short training camp, typically held in the weeks leading up to a sports draft, that features players going through a series of physical and psychological tests for the benefit of team coaches and scouts. Notable sporting combines include:

AFL Draft Combine in the Australian Football League
NBA Draft Combine in the National Basketball Association
NFL Scouting Combine in the National Football League

Fictional or abstract

The Combine, the hallucinated manifestation of oppression in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Draconis Combine, a faction in the BattleTech universe
Combine (Half-Life), an alien regime from the video game Half-Life 2

Places

Combine, Texas