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Webster 1913 Edition

Conjugation

Conˊju-ga′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
conjugatio
conjugation (in senses 1 & 3).]
1.
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
[Obs.]
Mixtures and
conjugations
of atoms.
Bentley.
2.
Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple.
[Obs.]
The sixth
conjugations
or pair of nerves.
Sir T. Browne.
3.
(Gram.)
(a)
The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
(b)
A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.
(c)
A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
4.
(Biol.)
A kind of sexual union; – applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

Webster 1828 Edition

Conjugation

CONJUGATION

,
Noun.
[L.]
1.
A couple or pair; as a conjugation of nerves. [Little used.]
2.
The act of uniting or compiling; union; assemblage.
3.
In grammar, the distribution of the several inflections or variations of a verb, in their different voices, modes, tenses, numbers and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.

Definition 2024

conjugation

conjugation

English

Noun

conjugation ‎(plural conjugations)

  1. The coming together of things.
  2. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
  3. Sexual relations within marriage
  4. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
  5. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
  6. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
  7. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
  8. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
  9. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation

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Borrowing from Latin coniugātiō ‎(“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniugō ‎(“join, unite together”), from con- ‎(“with”) + iugō ‎(“join, bind, connect”).

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