conjugate

present singular third person conjugates · participle present conjugating · participle past conjugated · past conjugated

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

   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. mathematicsTo multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3. rareTo join together, to unite; to juxtapose.

   The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

   2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 55

4. biologyTo temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

plural conjugates

1. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
2. algebraA complex conjugate.
3. algebraMore generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
4. field theoryalgebraGiven 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.
5. anatomyA type of pelvic measurement.
6. mathematicsAn explementary angle.
7. grammarA 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.

8. immunologyA weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

1. not comparableUnited in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

   1 more example

   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.

   1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 290

   Synonyms: paired · Antonyms: dysconjugate

2. not comparablebiologyIn single pairs; coupled.
3. not comparablechemistryContaining two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
4. not comparablegrammarAgreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5. not comparablemathematicsPresenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.