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Noun: conjugation  ,kón-ju'gey-shun
  1. The inflection of verbs
    "The conjugation of 'to be' in English includes forms like 'am', 'is', 'are', 'was', 'were'"
     
  2. The complete set of inflected forms of a verb
    "Students had to memorize the conjugation of irregular French verbs"
     
  3. A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
    "Regular verbs in English form a single conjugation"
     
  4. Act of joining or combining
    "The conjugation of music and dance created a new art form";
    - union, unification, jointure [archaic]
     
  5. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
    "the casual conjugations of adolescents";
    - coupling, mating, pairing, union, sexual union
     
  6. (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