Crossword clues for conjugate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See Join.]
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
(Bot.) In single pairs; coupled.
(Chem.) Containing two or more compounds or radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.]
(Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
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(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.
Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci.
Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other.
Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus.
Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus.
Conjugate point (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and Double point.
Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic.
Conjugate \Con`ju*gate\, n. [L. conjugatum a combining, etymological relationship.]
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A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
--Abp. Bramhall. (Chem.) A complex compound formed from the non-covalent union of two other comounds, behaving as a single compound. [R.]
Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjugated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conjugating.]
To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.]
--Sir H. Wotton.(Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumes in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
Conjugate \Con"ju*gate\, v. i. (Biol.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, in grammatical sense; 1560s in literal sense, from Latin coniugatus, past participle of coniugare "to yoke together" (see conjugal). Earlier as an adjective (late 15c.). Related: Conjugated; conjugating.
Wiktionary
1 United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2 (context botany English) In single pairs; coupled. 3 (context chemistry English) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. 4 (context grammar English) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words. 5 (context math English) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. n. 1 Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together. 2 (context mathematics English) (''of a complex number'') A complex conjugate. 3 (context mathematics English) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients. 4 (context mathematics English) An explement angle. 5 (context grammar English) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning. v
1 (context grammar transitive English) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses. 2 (context mathematics English) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse. 3 (context rare English) To join together, unite; to juxtapose. 4 (context biology of bacteria and algae English) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
WordNet
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 [syn: conjugate solution]
adj. joined together especially in a pair or pairs [syn: conjugated, coupled]
of a pinnate leaflet; having only one pair of leaflets
formed by the union of two compounds; "a conjugated protein" [syn: conjugated]
of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond [syn: conjugated]
v. unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds
add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.; "conjugate the verb"
undergo conjugation
Wikipedia
In algebra, a conjugate is a binomial formed by negating the second term of a binomial. The conjugate of is , where x and y are real numbers. If y is imaginary, the process is termed complex conjugation: the complex conjugate of is , where a and b are real.
Usage examples of "conjugate".
This has to be the conjugated estrogens in his orange juice every morning.
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.
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.
Plasmid conjugates had become very sophisticated tools in those years.
Plasmid conjugates had become very sophisticated tools in those years.
I was trying to talk to Siss, but before I knew it I'd rubbed on some betty and started conjugating with her.
I drove down alleys with my headlights out, searching for burglars and conjugating French verbs.