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Conjugate   /kˌɑndʒəgˈeɪt/  /kˈɑndʒəgˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
Conjugate  n.  
1.
A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification. "We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed."
2.
(Chem.) A complex compound formed from the non-covalent union of two other comounds, behaving as a single compound. (R.)


verb
Conjugate  v. t.  (past & past part. conjugated; pres. part. conjugating)  
1.
To unite in marriage; to join. (Obs.)
2.
(Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumes in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.


Conjugate  v. i.  (Biol.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.


adjective
Conjugate  adj.  
1.
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
2.
(Bot.) In single pairs; coupled.
3.
(Chem.) Containing two or more compounds or radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. (R.)
4.
(Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5.
(Math.) 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 axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci.
Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other.
Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus.
Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus.
Conjugate point (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and Double point.
Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Conjugate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the academy had herself played dragon at his classes, all would have gone well. He would have made his pupils conjugate irregular verbs, rendered them adepts in the mysteries of the past participle and the subjunctive mood, and turned them out quite innocent of the idiomatic quaintnesses of the French tongue. But dis aliter visum. The gods always saw wrong-headedly otherwise in the case of Aristide. ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... children or child geniuses who make a strong mark in their early years and drop into oblivion by the time they're twenty. Now, consider James Holden, sitting there discussing something with his attorney—I have no doubt in the world that he could conjugate Latin verbs, discuss the effect of the Fall of Rome on Western Civilization, and probably compute the orbit of an artificial satellite. But can James Holden fly a kite or shoot a marble? Has he ever had the fun of sliding into third base, or whittling on a peg, or any of the ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith
... made known as early as 1847.[J] After some days a little obtuse tube is protruded through the epispore, bearing at its apex long fusiform bodies, which are the sporules of the first generation. These conjugate by means of short transverse tubes, after the manner of the threads of Zygnema. Afterwards long elliptical sporules of the second generation are produced on short pedicels by the conjugated fusiform ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... Conjugate. adj. Conjugate coils or conductors are coils placed in such relation that the lines of force established by one do not pass through the coils of the other. Hence variations of current in one produce no ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... conjugate amo, amas, amat, and the pupil droned it after him but the verb to love recalled a black-eyed lass who had stolen his heart in the Azores and he veered from the Latin lesson to confide that ...
— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine


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