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Meaning of CONJUGATION

Pronunciation:  `kânju'geyshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
  2. [n]  the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
  3. [n]  a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
  4. [n]  the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
  5. [n]  the inflection of verbs
  6. [n]  the state of being joined together
 
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 Synonyms: colligation, conjunction, coupling, jointure, junction, mating, pairing, sexual union, unification, union, uniting
 
 Antonyms: disunion
 
 See Also: anastomosis, assortative mating, category, class, coalescence, coalescency, coalition, combination, combining, compounding, concretion, conglutination, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, disassortative mating, family, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, inbreeding, inflection, inflexion, inosculation, interbreeding, reunification, reunion, service, servicing, set, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, synapse, tribalisation, tribalization, umbrella, unification, union, verb

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Con`ju*ga"tion\, n. [L. conjugatio conjugation (in
senses 1 & 3).]
1. the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.]
         Mixtures and conjugations of atoms.   --Bentley.
2. Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.]
         The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. --Sir T.
                                               Browne.
3. (Gram.)
   (a) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its
       various parts and inflections.
   (b) A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a
       verb.
   (c) A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
4. (Biol.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending
   of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in
   some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or
   germs are developed.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The joining of two bacterial cells when genetic material is transferred from one bacterium to another.
 
Glossary
 
 Definition: The joining of two bacteria cells when genetic material is transferred from one bacterium to another.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: abutment, abuttal, accidence, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, affiliation, affix, affixation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, allomorph, amalgamation, ambiguity, ambivalence, Anschluss, apposition, appulse, articulation, artificial insemination, assimilation, association, biformity, bifurcation, blend, blending, bond, bound morpheme, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, clustering, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, communication, composition, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, copulation, coterminousness, coupling, cross-fertilization, cross-pollination, cutting, declension, derivation, dichotomy, difference of form, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, ecumenism, embodiment, enclitic, encompassment, enosis, equivocality, fecundation, federalization, federation, fertilization, formative, free form, fusion, gathering, getting with child, halving, heterogamy, hookup, IC analysis, immediate constituent analysis, impregnation, inclusion, incorporation, infix, infixation, inflection, insemination, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, irony, isogamy, Janus, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, juxtaposition, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, orthogamy, package, package deal, pairing, paradigm, perigee, perihelion, polarity, pollination, pollinization, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, solidification, splice, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, syzygy, theme, tie, tie-in, tie-up, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, wedding, word-formation, yoking, zygosis
 

 

 

 

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