Definition of conjugate

• a. - United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
• a. - In single pairs; coupled.
• a. - Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
• a. - Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.
• a. - Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
• n. - A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification.
• n. - A complex radical supposed to act the part of a single radical.
• v. t. - To unite in marriage; to join.
• v. t. - To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons.
• v. i. - To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or individuals among the more simple plants and animals.