Conjugate

['kɒndʒʊgeɪt] or ['kɑndʒəɡet]

Definition

(verb.) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds.

(verb.) undergo conjugation.

(verb.) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.; 'conjugate the verb'.

(adj.) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond .

(adj.) formed by the union of two compounds; 'a conjugated protein' .

(adj.) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets .

(adj.) joined together especially in a pair or pairs .

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Definition

(a.) United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

(a.) In single pairs; coupled.

(a.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.

(a.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.

(a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

(n.) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.

(n.) A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.

(v. t.) To unite in marriage; to join.

(v. t.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

(v. i.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

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Definition

v.t. (gram.) to give the various inflections or parts of a verb.—adj. joined: connected.—n. a word agreeing in derivation with another word.—adjs. Con′jugated Conjugā′tional Con′jugative conjugate.—ns. Con′jugateness; Con′jugating; Conjugā′tion the act of joining: union: (gram.) a term applied to a connected view or statement of the inflectional changes of form that a verb undergoes in its various relations: a class of verbs inflected in the same manner.—Conjugate axes two axes in a conic section such that each is parallel to the tangent at the extremity of the other; Conjugate foci (see Focus); Conjugate mirrors two mirrors set face to face so that the rays emitted from the focus of one are first reflected from it to the and thence to its focus; Conjugation of cells a mode of reproduction in which two apparently similar cells unite as in Amœba Diatoms &c.

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