Definition of CONJUGATE

conjugate

Meanings

Plural: conjugates

Noun

  • a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A
  • 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.
  • 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

Verb

  • unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
  • add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.
    • "conjugate the verb"
  • undergo conjugation
  • 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.

Adjective Satellite

  • joined together especially in a pair or pairs
  • (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets
  • formed by the union of two compounds
    • "a conjugated protein"
  • of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond

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.

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

conjugate solution, conjugated, coupled

Antonyms

dysconjugate

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