Conjugate
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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 meaning & definition 21 of Conjugate.
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to unite in marriage; to join
Conjugate meaning & definition 22 of Conjugate.
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to unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals
Conjugate meaning & definition 23 of Conjugate.
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kon′joo-gāt, v.t. (gram.) to give the various inflections or parts of a verb.—adj. joined: connected.—n. a word agreeing in derivation with another word.—adjs. Con′jugated, Conjugā′tional, Con′jugative, conjugate.—ns. Con′jugateness; Con′jugating; Conjugā′tion, the act of joining: union: (gram.) a term applied to a connected view or statement of the inflectional changes of form that a verb undergoes in its various relations: a class of verbs inflected in the same manner.—Conjugate axes, two axes in a conic section, such that each is parallel to the tangent at the extremity of the other; Conjugate foci (see Focus); Conjugate mirrors, two mirrors set face to face so that the rays emitted from the focus of one are first reflected from it to the and thence to its focus; Conjugation of cells, a mode of reproduction in which two apparently similar cells unite, as in Amœba, Diatoms, c. [L. conjugāre, -ātum—con, together, and jugāre—jugum, a yoke.]
Conjugate meaning & definition 24 of Conjugate.
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to bring together in pairs: consisting of a single pair. Conjugation: the union of pairs; usually applied to the merging of the male and female elements.
Conjugate meaning & definition 25 of Conjugate.