# conjugate
## English
### Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin coniugō (“to yoke together”), from con- (“with”) + iugō (“to join”).

### Pronunciation

* (verb)
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
*** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt/
** (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡæɪt/
* (noun)
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/
** (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/
** (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkɔn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/

### Verb

conjugate (third-person singular simple present conjugates, present participle conjugating, simple past and past participle conjugated)
* (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
    Coordinate term: decline
    In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
* (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
* (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
** 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 55:The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
* (biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

#### Hypernyms

* inflect

#### Translations
### Noun

conjugate (plural conjugates)
* Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
* (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
* (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
* (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
* (mathematics) An explementary angle.
* (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
** 17th c, John Bramhall,
    We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
* (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

#### Translations

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### Adjective

conjugate (not comparable)
* United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
    Antonym: dysconjugate
** 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:Some of the most widely-applied Gresley features will doubtless long remain a subject of controversy among locomotive engineers, and in particular his patent conjugate valve-motion for 3-cylinder engines, whereby the piston-valve of the middle cylinder derives its motion from the two outside Walschaerts valve-gears.
* (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
* (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
* (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
* (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.

#### Related terms

* conjugal

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* biconjugate
* bioconjugate
* complex conjugate root theorem
* conjugable
* conjugase
* conjugatable
* conjugate acid
* conjugate acid-base pair
* conjugate angle
* conjugate angles
* conjugate axis
* conjugate base
* conjugately
* conjugate mirror
* conjugateness
* conjugate redox pair
* conjugate transpose
* conjugation
* conjugative
* conjugator
* deconjugate
* disconjugate
* fucoconjugate
* galactoconjugate
* glycoconjugate
* Hermitian conjugate
* homoconjugate
* immunoconjugate
* isoconjugate
* lipoconjugate
* misconjugate
* monoconjugate
* nanoconjugate
* neoconjugate
* neoglycoconjugate
* nonconjugate
* polyconjugate
* radioconjugate
* reconjugate
* self-conjugate
* semiconjugate
* sialoconjugate
* sulfoconjugate
* transconjugate
* transpose conjugate
* unconjugate

## Spanish
### Verb

conjugate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of conjugar combined with te