Word Meaning

conjugate definition and meaning

a. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
a. In single pairs; coupled.
a. Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
a. Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
a. Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
n. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
n. A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.
v. t. To unite in marriage; to join.
v. t. To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
v. i. To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.