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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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