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/kˌɑndʒəgˈeɪtɪd/ /kˈɑndʒəgˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Conjugate v. t. (past & past part. conjugated; pres. part. conjugating)

To unite in marriage; to join. (Obs.)

(Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumes in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.

Conjugate v. i. (Biol.) To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.

adjective

conjugated adj.

(Chem.) (Chem.) Formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.

Synonyms: conjugate.

Joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Synonyms: conjugate, coupled.

(Chem.) Containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond; of an organic compound or of the double bonds thus arranged. Note: Conjugated double bonds have chemical and electronic properties different from those of isolated double bonds.

Synonyms: conjugate.

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Etymology of 'Conjugated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conjugated" Quotes from Famous Books

... can only indicate by circumlocutions. These pronouns are best shown in the form in which they are prefixed to a verb. The following are examples of the verb katkahtos, I see (root atkahto) and kenonwes, I love (root nonwe), as conjugated in the ...

— The Iroquois Book of Rites • Horatio Hale

... less clearly, the first changes which took place in the series of forms through which the existing form has been reached. Describing, in successive groups of plants, the early transformations of these primitive units, Sachs[44] says of the lowest Algae that "the conjugated protoplasmic body clothes itself with a cell-wall" (p. 10); that in "the spores of Mosses and Vascular Cryptogams" and in "the pollen of Phanerogams" ... "the protoplasmic body of the mother-cell breaks up into four lumps, which quickly round ...

— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer