Conjugate

Quick meaning: Conjugate is a verb meaning (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

Meaning

(grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
2. (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
3. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
4. (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
5. (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
6. (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
7. (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.

Example Sentences

The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

17th c, John Bramhall, We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.

Some of the most widely-applied Gresley features will doubtless long remain a subject of controversy among locomotive engineers, and in particular his patent conjugate valve-motion for 3-cylinder engines, whereby the piston-valve of the middle cylinder derives its motion from the two outside Walschaerts valve-gears.

Word Forms

• conjugates
• conjugating
• conjugated

Synonyms for conjugate

Depending on context, synonyms include paired, compound, coupled, conjugated, bound, united.

Antonyms for conjugate

Common opposites include dysconjugate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include united, bound, compound, coupled, concerted, conjunction.

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