Definitions for conjugation

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conjugation con·ju·ga·tion

Spelling: [kon-juh-gey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌkɒn dʒəˈgeɪ ʃən/

Conjugation is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 443 anagrams from letters in conjugation (acgijnnootu).

Definitions for conjugation

noun

1. Grammar. the inflection of verbs. the whole set of inflected forms of a verb or the recital or display thereof in a fixed order: a class of verbs having similar sets of inflected forms:
2. an act of joining:
3. the state of being joined together; union; conjunction.
4. Biology. the reproductive process in ciliate protozoans in which two organisms of different mating types exchange nuclear material through a temporary area of fusion. temporary union or permanent fusion as a form of sexual reproduction in certain algae and fungi, the male gametes of one organism uniting with female gametes of the other. a temporary union of two bacteria, in Escherichia and related groups, in which genetic material is transferred by migration of a plasmid, either solitary or as part of a chromosome, from one bacterium, the donor, to the other, the recipient; sometimes also including the transfer of resistance to antibiotics.

Origin of conjugation

1400-50; late Middle English conjugacion (Anglo-French) Late Latin conjugātiōn- (stem of conjugātiō), equivalent to conjugāt(us) (see conjugate) + -iōn-

Examples for conjugation

An example of a root of the AN conjugation is sanghid ‘ask permission’.

It is formulated correctly for the third conjugation, below.

This process of conjugation is just the opposite to that of division.

But I am aware that some cases of conjugation are opposed to any such views.

A verb is a word capable of declension and conjugation also.

These people have no idea of germinal cells or their conjugation.

The other tenses are conjugated, as is ari,u, in the second conjugation.

conjugation takes place in a different manner in different cases.

Hence with forms like fed and led we are in doubt as to the conjugation.

It is added to the roots of verbs and conjugated in the third conjugation.