conjugation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=ju=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

conjugation, n. [L. conjugatio conjugation (in senses 1 & 3).].

•  the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.  [1913 Webster]

  "Mixtures and conjugations of atoms."  [1913 Webster]
•  Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple.  [1913 Webster]

  "The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.  [1913 Webster]
•  A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

conjugation, n.
1 Gram. a system of verbal inflection.
2 a the act or an instance of conjugating. b an instance of this.
3 Biol. the fusion of two gametes in reproduction.

Derivative

conjugational adj.

Etymology

L conjugatio (as conjugate)

THESAURUS

conjugation

Anschluss, IC analysis, Janus, abutment, abuttal, accidence, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, affiliation, affix, affixation, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, agreement, alliance, allomorph, amalgamation, ambiguity, ambivalence, apposition, appulse, articulation, artificial insemination, assimilation, association, biformity, bifurcation, blend, blending, bond, bound morpheme, bracketing, cabal, cartel, centralization, clustering, coalescence, coalition, combination, combine, combo, communication, composition, concatenation, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, conjunction, connection, consolidation, conspiracy, conterminousness, contiguity, convergence, copulation, coterminousness, coupling, cross-fertilization, cross-pollination, cutting, declension, derivation, dichotomy, difference of form, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, ecumenism, embodiment, enclitic, encompassment, enosis, equivocality, fecundation, federalization, federation, fertilization, formative, free form, fusion, gathering, getting with child, halving, heterogamy, hookup, immediate constituent analysis, impregnation, inclusion, incorporation, infix, infixation, inflection, insemination, integration, intercommunication, intercourse, interlinking, irony, isogamy, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, junta, juxtaposition, knotting, league, liaison, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, meld, melding, merger, merging, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, orthogamy, package, package deal, pairing, paradigm, perigee, perihelion, polarity, pollination, pollinization, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, solidification, splice, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbiosis, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, syzygy, theme, tie, tie-in, tie-up, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unification, union, wedding, word-formation, yoking, zygosis

ROGET THESAURUS

conjugation

Grammar

N grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation, parts of speech, jussive, syllabication, inflection, case, declension, conjugation, us et norma loquendi, Lindley Murray, correct style, philology.

Junction

N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.

Duality

N duality, dualism, duplicity, biplicity, biformity, polarity, two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins, fellows, yoke, conjugation, dispermy, doublets, dyad, span, two, twin, dual, dualistic, double, binary, binomial, twin, biparous, dyadic, conduplicate, duplex, biduous, binate, diphyletic, dispermic, unijugate, tete-a-tete, coupled, conjugate, both, both the one and the other.

Conversion

N conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation, evolution, sea change, change of state, assumption, naturalization, transportation, development, developing, conversion of currency, exchange of currency, exchange rate, bureau de change, chemistry, alchemy, progress, growth, lapse, flux, passage, transit, transition, transmigration, shifting, phase, conjugation, convertibility, crucible, alembic, caldron, retort, convert, pervert, renegade, apostate, converted into, convertible, resolvable into, transitional, naturalized, gradually, &c (slowly) 275 in transitu.