conjugate

  1. Verb.  (grammar, transitive) To list the inflected forms of a verb for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
  2. Verb.  (grammar, of a verb) To vary in form to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  3. Verb.  (biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
  4. Noun.  Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
  5. Noun.  (mathematics) (''of a complex number'') A complex conjugate.
  6. Noun.  (mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
  7. Noun.  (mathematics) An explementary angle.

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