CONJUGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conjugation mean? 

• CONJUGATION (noun)
  The noun CONJUGATION has 6 senses:

1. the state of being joined together

2. the inflection of verbs

3. the complete set of inflected forms of a verb

4. a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms

5. the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

6. the act of making or becoming a single unit

  Familiarity information: CONJUGATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONJUGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being joined together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

colligation; conjugation; conjunction; junction

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):

anastomosis; inosculation (a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous)

synapse (the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The inflection of verbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

inflection; inflexion (a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function)

Meronyms (members of "conjugation"):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Derivation:

conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The complete set of inflected forms of a verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

Derivation:

conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

category; class; family (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)

Derivation:

conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union

Context example:

the mating of some species occurs only in the spring

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):

assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)

disassortative mating (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)

cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)

inbreeding (the act of mating closely related individuals)

service; servicing (the act of mating by male animals)

Derivation:

conjugate (undergo conjugation)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of making or becoming a single unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting

Context example:

he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays

Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):

combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):

coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)

reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)

tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)

umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)

 Context examples 

But when she began to lay down the importance of conjugation, he forgot all about her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This protein is involved in the mediation of both fatty acid transport and acyl-CoA conjugation of long-chain and very-long-chain fatty acids.

(Long-Chain Fatty Acid Transport Protein 4, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes glutathione S-transferase Pi protein, plays a role in the conjugation of reduced glutathione with both endogenous and exogenous hydrophobic electrophilic compounds.

(GSTP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes glutathione S-transferase Mu 1 protein, is involved in the conjugation of reduced glutathione with both endogenous and exogenous hydrophobic electrophilic compounds.

(GSTM1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Conjugation of GSH to the PEG molecules directs the liposomes to the GSH transporters on the blood brain barrier (BBB) and improves the delivery of doxorubicin into the brain.

(Glutathione Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Formulation 2B3-101, NCI Thesaurus)

Adhesion Factor Stabilization inhibits conjugation, transport, oxidation, or proteolysis of cell surface proteins involved in cell-cell or cell-matrix attachment.

(Negative Regulation of Degradation of Adhesion Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Complement Stabilization inhibits conjugation, transport, oxidation, or proteolysis of complement system proteins; sequentially interacting serum proteins (some serine proteases), their receptors, and related regulatory proteins.

(Negative Regulation of Degradation of Complement, NCI Thesaurus)

Phase II conjugation reactions include glucuronidation, methylation, acetylation, and glutathione, sulfate and amino acid conjugation.

(Phase II Enzymes Inducer, NCI Thesaurus)

Conjugation with PEG prevents penetration through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and into the central nervous system (CNS), and therefore does not interfere with the analgesic effect of opioids.

(Oral Pegylated Naloxol, NCI Thesaurus)

EF5 binds to hypoxic tissue; conjugation to Fluorine F 18 allows imaging of hypoxic regions within tumors.

(fluorine F 18 EF5, NCI Thesaurus)