Conjugation (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. Grammar.
    • the inflection of verbs.
    • the whole set of inflected forms of a verb or the recital or display thereof in a fixed order: The conjugation of the Latin verb amo begins amō, amas, amat.
    • a class of verbs having similar sets of inflected forms: the Latin second conjugation.
  2. an act of joining: a conjugation of related ideas.
  3. the state of being joined together; union; conjunction.
  4. Biology.
    • the reproductive process in ciliate protozoans in which two organisms of different mating types exchange nuclear material through a temporary area of fusion.
    • temporary union or permanent fusion as a form of sexual reproduction in certain algae and fungi, the male gametes of one organism uniting with female gametes of the other.
    • a temporary union of two bacteria, in Escherichia and related groups, in which genetic material is transferred by migration of a plasmid, either solitary or as part of a chromosome, from one bacterium, the donor, to the other, the recipient; sometimes also including the transfer of resistance to antibiotics.
noun
  1. grammar
    • inflection of a verb for person, number, tense, voice, mood, etc
    • the complete set of the inflections of a given verb
  2. a joining, union, or conjunction
  3. a type of sexual reproduction in ciliate protozoans involving the temporary union of two individuals and the subsequent migration and fusion of the gametic nuclei
  4. (in bacteria) the direct transfer of DNA between two cells that are temporarily joined
  5. the union of gametes, esp isogametes, as in some algae and fungi
  6. the pairing of chromosomes in the early phase of a meiotic division
  7. the existence of alternating double or triple bonds in a chemical compound, with consequent electron delocalization over part of the molecule
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