conjugate
To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
Example
“In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.”
Other meanings
To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
Related words
- conjugable
- conjugatable
- conjugative
- conjugator
- deconjugate
- glycoconjugate
- homoconjugate
- misconjugate
- reconjugate
- transconjugate
Word history
From Latin "coniugō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “conjugate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.