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con·ju·ga·tion (kän′jə gā′s̸hən)

noun

  1. a conjugating or being conjugated; union
  2. Biol. any of various types of sexual reproduction in which certain algae, fungi, etc. exchange genetic material
  3. Gram.
    1. a methodical presentation or arrangement of the inflectional forms of a verb; paradigm
    2. the act or process of producing such an arrangement or paradigm
    3. a class of verbs with similar inflectional forms

Etymology: ME conjugacion < L conjugatio

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