conjugation
pronunciation
How to pronounce conjugation in British English:
UK [ˌkɒndʒuˈgeɪʃn]
How to pronounce conjugation in American English:
US [ˌkɑndʒəˈgeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the state of being joined together
- the inflection of verbs
- the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
- a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
Word Origin
- conjugation (n.)
- mid-15c., from Latin conjugationem (nominative conjugatio) "a combining, connecting," noun of action from conjugare "to join together" (see conjugal). Grammatical sense is 1520s.
Example
- 1. Inductive effect , conjugation effect and hyper conjugation effect are called electronic effect .
- 2. A theoretical study on the essential factors of loss of conjugation in torsional conformations of ketenimine derivatives .
- 3. We are working in conjugation with the police .
- 4. Combine those labs with workbooks and lots of verb conjugation and you have generations of students who came out of a system unable to speak a second language .
- 5. However , with the increase in sterically hinderer , the degree of conjugation reduced , molecular excitation wavelength moved to short-wave , that is , blue shift occurs .