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Definition of Conjugation

1. Noun. The state of being joined together.

2. Noun. The inflection of verbs.

3. Noun. The complete set of inflected forms of a verb.

4. Noun. A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms.

5. Noun. The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes. "The mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

6. Noun. The act of making or becoming a single unit. "He looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

Definition of Conjugation

1. n. the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

Definition of Conjugation

1. Noun. The coming together of things. ¹

2. Noun. (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction ¹

3. Noun. Sexual relations within marriage ¹

4. Noun. (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take. ¹

5. Noun. (grammar) The act of conjugating a verb. ¹

6. Noun. (grammar) The conjugated forms of a verb. ¹

7. Noun. (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conjugation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Conjugation

1. 1. The act of joining together or the state of being conjugated. 2. A sexual process seen in bacteria, ciliate protozoa and certain fungi in which nuclear material is exchanged during the temporary fusion of two cells (conjugants). In bacterial genetics a form of sexual reproduction in which a donor bacterium (male) contributes some or all, of its DNA (in the form of a replicated set) to a recipient (female) which then incorporates differing genetic information into its own chromosome by recombination and passes the recombined set on to its progeny by replication. In ciliate protozoa, two conjugants of separate mating types exchange micronuclear material and then separate, each now being a fertilized cell. In certain fungi, the process involves fusion of two gametes, resulting in union of their nuclei and formation of a zygote. 3. The joining together of two compounds to produce another compound, such as the combination of a toxic product with some substance in the body to form a detoxified product, which is then eliminated. Origin: L. Conjugatio = a blending This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conjugation

conjugate redox pair conjugate solution conjugated conjugated antigen conjugated bilirubin conjugated compound conjugated double bonds conjugated hapten conjugated oestrogen conjugated protein

conjugately conjugateness conjugatenesses conjugates conjugating conjugational conjugationally conjugations conjugative conjugative plasmid

conjugatively conjugator conjugators conjugial conjunct conjunctional conjunctionally conjunctions

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