Carrier generation and recombination, in semiconductors, the cancellation of mobile charge carriers (electrons and holes)Crossover (genetic algorithm), also called recombinationGenetic recombination, the process by which genetic material is broken and joined to other genetic materialBacterial recombinationHomologous recombinationPlasma recombination, the formation of neutral atoms from the capture of free electrons by the cations in a plasmaRecombination (chemistry), the opposite of dissociationRecombination (cosmology), the time at which protons and electrons formed neutral hydrogen in the timeline of the Big Bang reference