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ConjugateConjugate Con"ju*gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conjugated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Conjugating.]
1. To unite in marriage; to join. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
2. (Gram.) To inflect (a verb), or give in order the forms
which it assumed in its several voices, moods, tenses,
numbers, and persons. Conjugate
Conjugate Con"ju*gate, v. i. (Biol.)
To unite in a kind of sexual union, as two or more cells or
individuals among the more simple plants and animals.
Conjugate
Conjugate Con`ju*gate, n. [L. conjugatum a combining,
etymological relationship.]
1. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and
therefore generally resembling it in signification.
We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are
sometimes in name only, and not in deed. --Abp.
Bramhall.
2. (Chem.) A complex radical supposed to act the part of a
single radical. [R.]
ConjugateConjugate Con"ju*gate, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare
to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke;
akin to jungere to join. See Join.]
1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled.
3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act
the part of a single one. [R.]
4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification;
-- said of words.
5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having
reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and
applied mathematics with reference to two quantities,
points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the
center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the
two foci.
Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an
ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords
drawn parallel to the other.
Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus.
Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays
from the focus of one are received at the focus of the
other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays
proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected
in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought
to the principal focus.
Conjugate point (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and
Double point.
Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections), a triangle each
of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with
reference to a conic.
Meaning of Conjugate from wikipedia
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Conjugation or
conjugate may
refer to:
Grammatical conjugation, the
modification of a verb from...
- In mathematics, the
complex conjugate of a
complex number is the
number with an
equal real part and an
imaginary part
equal in
magnitude but opposite...
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posterior are then
called conjugate distributions with
respect to that
likelihood function and the
prior is
called a
conjugate prior for the likelihood...
- A
conjugate acid,
within the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory, is a
chemical compound formed when an acid
gives a
proton (H+) to a base—in
other words...
- In
mathematics and
mathematical optimization, the
convex conjugate of a
function is a
generalization of the
Legendre transformation which applies to non-convex...
- In mathematics, the
conjugate transpose, also
known as the
Hermitian transpose, of an m × n {\displaystyle m\times n}
complex matrix A {\displaystyle...
- In mathematics, the
conjugate gradient method is an
algorithm for the
numerical solution of
particular systems of
linear equations,
namely those whose...
- In mathematics, in
particular field theory, the
conjugate elements or
algebraic conjugates of an
algebraic element α, over a
field extension L/K, are the...
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Conjugate variables are
pairs of
variables mathematically defined in such a way that they
become Fourier transform duals, or more
generally are related...
- that is
equal to its own
conjugate transpose—that is, the
element in the i-th row and j-th
column is
equal to the
complex conjugate of the
element in the...
