# conjugator
## English
### Etymology

From conjugate +‎ -ator.

### Noun

conjugator (plural conjugators)
* An automated process or written aid for giving the conjugation table of verbs.
* One who conjugates (a noun, verb, etc).
** 1841 January, “Art. IX.—Critical Notices. 1. A Greek Reader, for the Use of Schools, containing Selections in Prose and Poetry, with English Notes and a Lexicon; adapted particularly to the Greek Grammar of E. A. Sophocles, A. M. By C. C. Felton, […]”, in The New York Review, volume VIII, number XV, New York, N.Y.: […] Alexander V. Blake, […], page 265:He has here shown that he is not a mere bookworm, a decliner of nouns and conjugator of verbs—not one who, as the old philosopher said, passed his life in anxiety because he could not discover whether the future of the verb βαλλω should be spelt with one λ or with two; […]
** 1860, Lawrence Peel, “His Early Life”, in A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, pages 45–46:“The first question then which he proposed to every one in his order was ‘Quid dubitas?’ What doubts have you met with in your studies to-day? For he supposed that to doubt nothing, and to understand nothing, were nearly the same thing.” (Neale’s “History of the Puritans,” vol. ii. p. 311.) I observed in my limited intercourse with the late statesman, that he was rather a conjugator of this verb.
** 1902 December 18, Henry Rightor, “A Kidnaping in Caribbea”, in The Mirror, volume XII, number 45, St. Louis, Mo., page 8, column 3:I’ll warrant you the Oleander’s cruise to the Passes was a gay one, though little did those conjugators of the verb, “to love,” on the high seas, dream that the devil had crept into the man left under the red lamp, and he was bearing down on them like a fate in a soggy launch bartered for at Ceiba.
** 1917, The Diary of a Russian Lady: Reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née Princesse Galitzine), London: John Long, Limited, […], page 157:We were surely taken here for a pair of unlawful conjugators of the verb “to love,” for we merely came to perch like a bird for a couple of hours, then to fly away.
** 1933 September 9, “Trade Winds / By P. E. G. Quercus / West 45th Street / By W. S. Hall”, in Henry Seidel Canby, editor, The Saturday Review of Literature, volume X, number 8, New York, N.Y., page 104, column 3:Under the guidance of Messrs. Magel and Schwab, expert conjugators of the new verb “to merchandise,” the future is I think assured.
** 1964, The New Republic, page 29:At Washington now we can see that the original conjugators of the irregular verb, to paint, were all painting about something.
* (mathematics) A function g, such that there is a conjugation mapping x to gxg$^{-1}$.
** 1994, Chai Yeh, Applied Photonics, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 204:Equation (10.9) represents the reflection coefficient of the phase conjugation and can be used to design phase conjugators.
** 1995, Marvin J. Weber, CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology Supplement 2: Optical Materials, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 450:Many different configurations of self-pumped phase conjugators relying on four-wave mixing to produce a phase-conjugate wave have been reported.
** 2010, David Garber, “Braid Group Cryptography”, in A. Jon Berrick, Frederick R. Cohen, Elizabeth Hanbury, Yan-Loi Wong, Jie Wu, editors, Braids: Introductory Lectures on Braids, Configurations and Their Applications (Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore; 19), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 373:Thus, for using such an attack, one should choose a good length function on B$_n$ and run it iteratively until he gets the correct conjugator.
* One who forms conjugates (a weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together)
** 1979, Esmail Meisami, Mary Agnes Burniston Brazier, editors, Neural Growth and Differentiation, Raven Press, →ISBN, page 473:However, Brueton et al. (7) have demonstrated that infants fed human milk remain predominantly taurine conjugators of bile acids, whereas those fed taurine-deficient formulas become predominantly glycine conjugators of bile acids.
** 1986, Ryan J. Huxtable, Biochemistry of Sulfur, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, →ISBN, page 165:Carnivores tend to be exclusive taurine conjugators of cholic acid (Table 4-8).
** 1990, AHFS Drug Information, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists:Limited evidence suggests that patients who develop chenodiol-induced elevations in serum aminotransferase concentrations may be poor sulfate conjugators of lithocholic acid.