Conjugator
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An automated process or written aid for giving the conjugation table of verbs.
- 2 One who conjugates (a noun, verb, etc).
"He has here shown that he is not a mere bookworm, a decliner of nouns and conjugator of verbs—not one who, as the old philosopher said, passed his life in anxiety because he could not discover whether the future of the verb βαλλω should be spelt with one λ or with two; […]"
- 3 A function g, such that there is a conjugation mapping x to gxg⁻¹.
"Equation (10.9) represents the reflection coefficient of the phase conjugation and can be used to design phase conjugators."
- 4 One who forms conjugates (a weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together)
"However, Brueton et al. (7) have demonstrated that infants fed human milk remain predominantly taurine conjugators of bile acids, whereas those fed taurine-deficient formulas become predominantly glycine conjugators of bile acids."
Example
More examples"He has here shown that he is not a mere bookworm, a decliner of nouns and conjugator of verbs—not one who, as the old philosopher said, passed his life in anxiety because he could not discover whether the future of the verb βαλλω should be spelt with one λ or with two; […]"
Etymology
From conjugate + -ator.
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