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Conjugate
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- 1 United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 In single pairs; coupled. not-comparable
- 3 Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. not-comparable
- 4 Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words. not-comparable
- 5 Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. not-comparable
- 1 of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond wordnet
- 2 formed by the union of two compounds wordnet
- 3 (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets wordnet
- 4 joined together especially in a pair or pairs wordnet
- 1 Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- 2 a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A wordnet
- 3 A complex conjugate.
- 4 More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- 5 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.
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- 6 A type of pelvic measurement.
- 7 An explementary angle.
- 8 A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
"17th c, John Bramhall, We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed."
- 9 A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
- 1 To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts. transitive
"In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'."
- 2 unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds wordnet
- 3 To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
- 4 undergo conjugation wordnet
- 5 To join together, to unite; to juxtapose. rare
"The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease."
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- 6 add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. wordnet
- 7 To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
Etymology
The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”).
The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”).
The adjective (as “combined, united”) and noun are first attested in 1471, in Middle English, the verb in 1530; partly from Middle English conjugat(e) (“combined, united”), partly directly borrowed from New Latin coniugātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together, combine; (New Latin) to conjugate, decline, inflect”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”). In Classical Latin, the word for conjugate (grammar) was dēclīnō, coniugō is a later back-formation from post-classical coniugātiō (“conjugation, declension”).
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