Associations to the word «Conjugation»

Wiktionary

CONJUGATION, noun. The coming together of things.
CONJUGATION, noun. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
CONJUGATION, noun. Sexual relations within marriage
CONJUGATION, noun. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
CONJUGATION, noun. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb.
CONJUGATION, noun. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb.
CONJUGATION, noun. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
CONJUGATION, noun. (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
CONJUGATION, noun. (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation

Dictionary definition

CONJUGATION, noun. The state of being joined together.
CONJUGATION, noun. The inflection of verbs.
CONJUGATION, noun. The complete set of inflected forms of a verb.
CONJUGATION, noun. A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms.
CONJUGATION, noun. 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".
CONJUGATION, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley