'Conjugation' definitions:
Definition of 'conjugation'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
The inflection of verbs
noun
The complete set of inflected forms of a verb
noun
A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
noun
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
noun
The act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
Definition of 'Conjugation'
From: GCIDE
- Conjugation \Con`ju*ga"tion\, n. [L. conjugatio conjugation (in senses 1 & 3).]
- 1. the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Gram.) (a) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections. (b) A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb. (c) A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Biol.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conjugation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abutment,
- abuttal,
- accidence,
- addition,
- adjacency,
- adjoiningness,
- affiliation,
- affix,
- affixation,
- agglomeration,
- agglutination,
- aggregation,
- agreement,
- alliance,
- allomorph,
- amalgamation,
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- Anschluss,
- apposition,
- appulse,
- articulation,
- artificial insemination,
- assimilation,
- association,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- blend,
- blending,
- bond,
- bound morpheme,
- bracketing,
- cabal,
- cartel,
- centralization,
- clustering,
- coalescence,
- coalition,
- combination,
- combine,
- combo,
- communication,
- composition,
- concatenation,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confederacy,
- confederation,
- confluence,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- conjunction,
- connection,
- consolidation,
- conspiracy,
- conterminousness,
- contiguity,
- convergence,
- copulation,
- coterminousness,
- coupling,
- cross-fertilization,
- cross-pollination,
- cutting,
- declension,
- derivation,
- dichotomy,
- difference of form,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- ecumenism,
- embodiment,
- enclitic,
- encompassment,
- enosis,
- equivocality,
- fecundation,
- federalization,
- federation,
- fertilization,
- formative,
- free form,
- fusion,
- gathering,
- getting with child,
- halving,
- heterogamy,
- hookup,
- IC analysis,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impregnation,
- inclusion,
- incorporation,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- insemination,
- integration,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- interlinking,
- irony,
- isogamy,
- Janus,
- joinder,
- joining,
- jointure,
- junction,
- junta,
- juxtaposition,
- knotting,
- league,
- liaison,
- linkage,
- linking,
- marriage,
- meeting,
- meld,
- melding,
- merger,
- merging,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- orthogamy,
- package,
- package deal,
- pairing,
- paradigm,
- perigee,
- perihelion,
- polarity,
- pollination,
- pollinization,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- radical,
- root,
- solidification,
- splice,
- stem,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- symbiosis,
- syncretism,
- syndication,
- syneresis,
- synthesis,
- syzygy,
- theme,
- tie,
- tie-in,
- tie-up,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- unification,
- union,
- wedding,
- word-formation,
- yoking,
- zygosis
Words containing 'Conjugation'
- Conjugal,
- Conjugality,
- Conjugally,
- Conjugate,
- Conjugated,
- Conjugating,
- Conjugational,
- Conjugate diameters,
- Conjugate focus,
- Conjugate mirrors,
- Conjugate point,
- Multiple conjugation,
- Periphrastic conjugation,
- Strong conjugation,
- Weak conjugation,
- complex conjugate,
- conjugal family,
- conjugal right,
- conjugal visitation,
- conjugate solution,
- conjugated protein,
- irregular conjugation,
- new conjugation,
- old conjugation,
- regular conjugation,
- Conjugate axis of a hyperbola,
- Self-conjugate,
- conjugal visitation right,
- Self-conjugate triangle