Definition of conjugate
- 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.