conjugation

plural conjugations

1. countableuncountableThe coming together of things; a union.
2. countableuncountablebiologyThe temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
3. countableuncountablelawSexual relations within marriage.
4. countableuncountablegrammarIn some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.

   In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]

   1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972

5. countableuncountablegrammarThe act or process of conjugating a verb.
6. countableuncountablegrammarThe product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.

   Meronym: principal parts

7. countableproscribedsometimesuncountablegrammarThe inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a declension.

   Nouns ending in a vowel other than a, which do not conform to any phonological pattern of noun conjugation, do not decline.

   2005, Maya Arad, “The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?”, in Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-syntax, →ISBN

8. countableuncountablechemistryA system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
9. countableuncountablemathematicsA mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements of a group; an inner automorphism.
10. countableuncountablemathematicsA function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; a complex conjugation.