conjugate
Meanings
verb
- To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
- To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
- To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
noun
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- A complex conjugate.
- More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- 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.
- A type of pelvic measurement.
- An explementary angle.
- A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
adj
- United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- In single pairs; coupled.
- Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
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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”).
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