Noun: conjugation ,kón-ju'gey-shun
- The inflection of verbs
"The conjugation of 'to be' in English includes forms like 'am', 'is', 'are', 'was', 'were'"
- The complete set of inflected forms of a verb
"Students had to memorize the conjugation of irregular French verbs"
- A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
"Regular verbs in English form a single conjugation"
- Act of joining or combining
"The conjugation of music and dance created a new art form";
- union, unification, jointure [archaic]
- The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
"the casual conjugations of adolescents";
- coupling, mating, pairing, union, sexual union
- (mathematics) operation of replacing an element with its conjugate, involving sign reversal or transformation
"The conjugation of a complex number involves changing the sign of its imaginary part"
Derived forms: conjugations
Type of: category, class, combination, combining, compounding, family, inflection, inflexion [Brit], set, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
Antonym: disunion
Encyclopedia: Conjugation, genetic