Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conjugation"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Conjugation \Con`ju*ga"tion\, n. [L. conjugatio conjugation (in
senses 1 & 3).]
1. the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage. [Obs.]

Mixtures and conjugations of atoms. --Bentley.

2. Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple. [Obs.]

The sixth conjugations or pair of nerves. --Sir T.
Browne.

3. (Gram.)
(a) The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its
various parts and inflections.
(b) A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a
verb.
(c) A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.

4. (Biol.) 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

conjugation
n 1: the inflection of verbs
2: the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
3: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
4: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive
purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the
mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: {coupling},
{mating}, {pairing}, {union}, {sexual union}]


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