conjugate

UK /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/ US /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
noun 5adj 5verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.

In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.

2

To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.

3

To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.

The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

4

To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

noun

1

Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.

2

A complex conjugate.

3

More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.

4

Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.

5

A type of pelvic measurement.

adj

1

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

Some of the most widely-applied Gresley features will doubtless long remain a subject of controversy among locomotive engineers, and in particular his patent conjugate valve-motion for 3-cylinder engines, whereby the piston-valve of the middle cylinder derives its motion from the two outside Walschaerts valve-gears.

2

In single pairs; coupled.

3

Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.

4

Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.

5

Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

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