Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Grammar To inflect (a verb) in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood, and tense.
- v. To join together.
- v. Biology To undergo conjugation.
- v. Grammar To be inflected.
- adj. Joined together, especially in a pair or pairs; coupled.
- adj. Mathematics & Physics Inversely or oppositely related with respect to one of a group of otherwise identical properties, especially designating either or both of a pair of complex numbers differing only in the sign of the imaginary term.
- adj. Chemistry Relating to an acid and a base that are related by the difference of a proton.
- adj. Linguistics Derived from a common source, such as the words foul and filth.
- n. Mathematics & Physics Any of a set of numbers that satisfy the same irreducible polynomial.
- n. Chemistry A chemical compound that has been formed by the joining of two or more compounds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To join together; specifically, to join in marriage; unite by marriage.
- In grammar, to inflect (a verb) through all its various forms, as voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, or so many of them as there, may be. This use has its origin in the fact that in inflected languages a verb is conjugated by conjoining certain inflectional syllables with the root.
- In biology, to perform the act of conjugation; specifically, in botany, to unite and form a zygospore.
- United in pairs; joined together; coupled.
- In botany, applied to a pinnate leaf which has only one pair of leaflets.
- In chem., containing two or more radicals acting the part of a single one.
- In grammar and rhetoric, kindred in meaning as having a common derivation; paronymous: an epithet sometimes applied to words immediately derived from the same primitive.
- In mathematics, applied to two points, lines, etc., when they are considered together, with regard to any property, in such a manner that they may be interchanged without altering the way of enunciating the property—that is, when they are in a reciprocal or equiparant relation to one another.
- n. In gram, and rhetoric, one of a group of words having the same immediate derivation, and therefore presumably related in meaning; a paronym. In logic, an argument from conjugates is one drawn from the obvious similarity of such words in form, and, it is assumed, in signification also.
- n. In chem., a subordinate radical associated with another, along with which it acts as a single radical.
- n. A conjugate axis.
- In gearing, said of tooth-profiles when they are of such a form that one will drive the other with a constant velocity-ratio, that is, when the ratio of the angular velocity of the driver to that of the driven is constant. The necessary condition for a constant velocity-ratio is that a normal to the two curves at the point of contact shall cut the straight line joining the centers of the gears at the point where it is intersected by the two pitch-circles.
- United by a transverse furrow, as the paired ambulacral pores of the echinoids.
- n. Of a point O with respect to the triangle ABC, a point O′ such that on it are copunctal AX′ , BY′ , CZ′ when X′ , Y′ , Z′ are the isotomic conjugates, with respect to the sides, of X, Y, Z the points where transversals from A, B, C through O meet the sides.
Wiktionary
- v. grammar, transitive To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
- v. rare To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
- v. biology To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
- n. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- n. mathematics (of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
- n. mathematics More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
- n. mathematics An explementary angle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- adj. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled.
- adj. (Chem.), rare Containing two or more compounds or radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
- adj. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
- adj. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
- n. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
- n. (Chem.), rare A complex compound formed from the non-covalent union of two other comounds, behaving as a single compound.
- v. obsolete To unite in marriage; to join.
- v. (Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumes in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
- v. (Biol.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets
- v. undergo conjugation
- adj. of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond
- adj. joined together especially in a pair or pairs
- adj. formed by the union of two compounds
- n. 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
- v. add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.
- v. unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
Etymologies
- From the participle stem of Latin conjugāre ("to yoke together"), from con- + jugāre. (Wiktionary)
- Latin coniugāre, coniugāt-, to join together : com-, com- + iugāre, to join (from iugum, yoke). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, we believe it's feasible to create a C60-vancomycin conjugate that attaches to anthrax while it is still in the spore form.”
“Rice Chemistry Professor Lon Wilson decided to create a buckyball-vancomycin conjugate following years of work developing biochemical targeting mechanisms for buckyballs, spherical cages containing 60 carbon molecules.”
“The polysaccharide attached to the protein is known as a conjugate vaccine.”
“When injected, these so-called conjugate vaccines spur the immune system to create antibodies to fight the tiny, addictive-drug molecules.”
The Wall Street Journal: Quest for Vaccines to Treat Addiction
“Inc (TSX-V: KLH): Stellar's product, KLH, is a potent immuno-stimulatory protein with an exceptional record of safety and non-toxicity in humans that is being used in medicines known as conjugate therapeutic vaccines and in other biomedical products.”
“Brönsted-Lowry bases are paired with acids, forming what is referred to as conjugate pairs.”
“Maddy knew well what "conjugate" meant, but that verb _Amo_, what could it mean? and had she ever heard it before?”
“We think no expense too great to test an Armstrong or a Whitworth gun; we spend thousands to ascertain how far it will carry, what destructive force it possesses, and how long it will resist explosion; -- why not appoint a commission of this nature on "conjugate;" why not ascertain, if we can, what is the weak point in matrimony, and why are explosions so frequent?”
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
“The resulting nanotube-enzyme "conjugate" can be mixed with any number of surface finishes - in tests, it was mixed with ordinary latex house paint.”
“AEZS-108 represents a new targeting concept in oncology using a cytotoxic peptide conjugate which is a hybrid molecule composed of a synthetic peptide carrier and a well-known cytotoxic agent, doxorubicin.”
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