Conjugate Definition

kŏnjə-gāt
conjugated, conjugates, conjugating
verb
conjugated, conjugates, conjugating
To join together; unite; couple.
Webster's New World
To unite in conjugation.
Webster's New World
To conjugate a verb.
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To join (compounds) so that the resulting substance can be readily removed, as a toxic product in the body.
Webster's New World
To inflect (a verb) systematically, giving its different forms according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person.
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Synonyms:
adjective
Joined together, esp. in a pair; coupled.
Webster's New World
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.
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Bijugate.

Webster's New World
Related to each other by the difference of a proton: said of acids and bases.
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Conjugated.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
noun
Any of a set of numbers that satisfy the same irreducible polynomial.
American Heritage
A conjugate word.
Webster's New World
A conjugate point, line, quantity, etc.
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A chemical compound that has been formed by the joining of two or more compounds.
American Heritage Medicine
A chemically conjugated substance.
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Synonyms:
  • conjugate solution

Other Word Forms of Conjugate

Noun

Singular:
conjugate
Plural:
conjugates

Origin of Conjugate

  • Latin coniugāre coniugāt- to join together com- com- iugāre to join (from iugum yoke yeug- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the participle stem of Latin coniugāre (“to yoke together”), from con- + iugāre.

    From Wiktionary

Conjugate Sentence Examples

  • The circuits in which the batterybattery P and and d being galvanometer called the ratio branches placed are called conjugate circuits, and the circuits P, Q, R, and S are called the arms of the bridge, the '44 S arms and S the measuring arm.

  • Reflexive verbs are generally easy to conjugate.

  • I must have been a terrible swot, getting up at 6am to conjugate my verbs.

  • The straight line and the line through the centre parallel to the chords are named conjugate diameters; each bisects the chords parallel to the other.

  • The fifth book contains properties of normals and their envelopes, thus embracing the germs of the theory of evolutes, and also maxima and minima problems, such as to draw the longest and shortest lines from a given point to a conic; the sixth book is concerned with the similarity of conics; the seventh with complementary chords and conjugate diameters; the eighth book, according to the restoration of Edmund Halley, continues the subject of the preceding book.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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