Definitions for conjugate

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conjugate con·ju·gate

Spelling: [verb kon-juh-geyt; adjective, noun Conjugate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 362 anagrams from letters in conjugate (acegjnotu).

Definitions for conjugate

noun

1. one of a group of conjugate words.
2. Mathematics. either of two conjugate points, lines, etc. Also called complex conjugate, conjugate complex number. either of a pair of complex numbers of the type a + bi and a − bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is imaginary.

adjective

1. joined together, especially in a pair or pairs; coupled.
2. Botany. (of a pinnate leaf) having only one pair of leaflets.
3. Grammar. (of words) having a common derivation.
4. Bibliography. (of two leaves in a book) forming one sheet.
5. Mathematics. (of two points, lines, etc.) so related as to be interchangeable in the enunciation of certain properties. (of an element) so related to a second element of a group that there exists a third element of the group that, multiplying one element on the right and the other element on the left, results in equal elements. (of two complex numbers) differing only in the sign of the imaginary part.
6. Chemistry. of or noting two or more liquids in equilibrium with one another. (of an acid and a base) related by the loss or gain of a proton: Also, conjugated. (of an organic compound) containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond.

verb (used with object)

1. Grammar. to inflect (a verb). to recite or display all or some subsets of the inflected forms of (a verb), in a fixed order: .
2. to join together, especially in marriage.

verb (used without object)

1. Biology. to unite; to undergo conjugation.
2. Grammar. to be characterized by conjugation:

Origin of conjugate

1425-75; late Middle English (adj.) Latin conjugātus (past participle of conjugāre to yoke together), equivalent to con- con- + jug(um) yoke

Examples for conjugate

If every diameter is perpendicular to its conjugate the conic is a circle.

Thirsting to be amused, he could not conjugate the active verb "to amuse."

The Anglo-Saxon man wants him to learn to conjugate and wear suspenders.

These lines a and a′ are said to be conjugate with regard to the surface.

Maddy knew well what "conjugate" meant, but that verb Amo, what could it mean?

As to you, 'new boy,' you will conjugate 'ridiculus sum' twenty times.

Even Murray can only afford to conjugate one example,—To Love.

conjugate: to bring together in pairs: consisting of a single pair.

I will not spare you,” said I; “this evening I intend to make you conjugate an Armenian verb.

It will be convenient to say that this line and the plane are conjugate with each other.