conjugation
nounUK /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/ · US /ˌkɑnd͡ʒəˈɡeɪʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin coniugātiō (“combining, connecting; conjugation”), from coniugō (“join, unite together”). Equivalent to conjugate + -ion.
10 senses
- 1The coming together of things; a union.
- 2The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of…
- 3Sexual relations within marriage.
- 4In some languages, one of several classifications of…
- 5The act or process of conjugating a verb.
- 6The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb…
- 7The inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a…
- 8A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of…
- 9A mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements…
- 10A function which negates the non-real part of a complex…
The coming together of things; a union.
Biology, Natural sciences The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
Law Sexual relations within marriage.
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.
- In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…]1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The act or process of conjugating a verb.
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
- Meronym: principal parts
Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Proscribed, Sometimes The inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a declension.
- Nouns ending in a vowel other than a, which do not conform to any phonological pattern of noun conjugation, do not decline.2005, Maya Arad, “The Noun-Verb Asymmetry in Hebrew: When Are Patterns Obligatory?”, in Roots and Patterns: Hebrew Morpho-syntax, →ISBN:
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
Mathematics, Sciences A mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements of a group; an inner automorphism.
Mathematics, Sciences A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; a complex conjugation.
- Derived terms
- bioconjugation, conjugational, cross-conjugation, deconjugation, glucoconjugation, glucuronoconjugation, glycoconjugation, heteroconjugation, homoconjugation, hyperconjugation, immunoconjugation, misconjugation, nanoconjugation, periphrastic conjugation, photoconjugation, reconjugation, sulfoconjugation, transconjugation
- Related terms
- conjugate, flection, flexion, inflection, inflexion
- Hypernyms
- flexion, inflexion, accidence, flection, inflection
- Coordinate terms
- declension, declination