conjugate
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Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together”), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”).
Pronunciation
- (verb)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡæɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
- (noun)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/
Verb
conjugate (third-person singular simple present conjugates, present participle conjugating, simple past and past participle conjugated)
- (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- Coordinate term: decline
- In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
- (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
- (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 55:
- The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
- (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
Hypernyms
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Translations
to inflect (a verb) for each person
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Noun
conjugate (plural conjugates)
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- (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.
- (mathematics) An explementary angle.
- (grammar) 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.
- 17th c, John Bramhall,
- (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
Translations
entity formed by joining smaller ones
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math: complex conjugate — see complex conjugate
math: any of a set of zeros of a polynomial
math: explementary angle
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Adjective
conjugate (not comparable)
- United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- Antonym: dysconjugate
- 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:
- 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.
- (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
- (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
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Translations
Derived terms
- biconjugate
- bioconjugate
- complex conjugate root theorem
- conjugable
- conjugase
- conjugatable
- conjugate acid
- conjugate acid-base pair
- conjugate angle
- conjugate angles
- conjugate axis
- conjugate base
- conjugately
- conjugate mirror
- conjugateness
- conjugate redox pair
- conjugate transpose
- conjugation
- conjugative
- conjugator
- deconjugate
- disconjugate
- fucoconjugate
- galactoconjugate
- glycoconjugate
- Hermitian conjugate
- homoconjugate
- immunoconjugate
- isoconjugate
- lipoconjugate
- misconjugate
- monoconjugate
- nanoconjugate
- neoconjugate
- neoglycoconjugate
- nonconjugate
- polyconjugate
- radioconjugate
- reconjugate
- self-conjugate
- semiconjugate
- sialoconjugate
- sulfoconjugate
- transconjugate
- transpose conjugate
- unconjugate
Verb
conjugate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of conjugar combined with te
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