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conjugated

conjugated \conjugated\ adj.

  1. (Chem.) (Chem.) formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.

    Syn: conjugate.

  2. joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

    Syn: conjugate, coupled.

  3. (Chem.) containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond; -- of an organic compound or of the double bonds thus arranged.

    Note: Conjugated double bonds have chemical and electronic properties different from those of isolated double bonds.

    Syn: conjugate.

Wiktionary
conjugated
  1. 1 joined together in pairs 2 (context chemistry English) of an organic compound, or a part of such a compound, containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/ or lone pairs, each pair of which is separated by one single bond. v

  2. (en-past of: conjugate)

WordNet
conjugated
  1. adj. formed by the union of two compounds; "a conjugated protein" [syn: conjugate]

  2. joined together especially in a pair or pairs [syn: conjugate, coupled]

  3. of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond [syn: conjugate]

Usage examples of "conjugated".

And so it was natural enough that they should be shared by various ladies, who, having conjugated the verb to live as far as the preterpluperfect tense, were ready to change one of its vowels and begin with it in the present indicative.

This has to be the conjugated estrogens in his orange juice every morning.

The conjugated estrogens, the Premarin, the estradiol, the ethinyl estradi-ol, they've all found their way into Seth's diet cola.

Manus cheated on me with Evie, but I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food.

He conjugated with his bottle and called to a robot to bring him another.

Shlestertrap murmured and conjugated long and thoughtfully with the bottle.

Our civilizer sat on a single chair surrounded by multitudes of bottles, all of whom had already been conjugated to the point of extinction.

Somewhere below, in one of the burgeoning cities of the Southlands or wandering the waste of the Northlands, were two of the three children the Regis had conjugated in human form.

She had conjugated herself in an approximation of humanoid female form in his honor.

She confounded all she was taught, and never could recollect whether the verb was conjugated and the noun declined, or whether it was the other way round, to use one of her favourite expressions, so that her preceptors were compelled to fall back, more exclusively than with her schoolfellows, on her moral conduct, which was outwardly respectable enough, but by the occupant of the other bed might perhaps have been reported on in terms not quite so satisfactory as those in the quarterly form signed by Miss Ponsonby.

In the Missionary College at Lahainaluna, on Mowee, one of the Sandwich Islands, I saw a tabular exhibition of a Hawiian verb, conjugated through all its moods and tenses.