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Conjugate adj.

1.

United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

2.

(Bot.) In single pairs; coupled.

3.

(Chem.) Containing two or more compounds or 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.

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Etymology of 'Conjugate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conjugate" Quotes from Famous Books

... conjugate amo, amas, amat, and the pupil droned it after him but the verb to love recalled a black-eyed lass who had stolen his heart in the Azores and he veered from the Latin lesson to confide that ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... of Christ while working at their regular jobs as carpenters and house-painters and stone masons. They maintained an excellent school, that deserving boys of poor parents might be taught the wisdom of the Fathers of the church. At this school, little Thomas had learned how to conjugate Latin verbs and how to copy manuscripts. Then he had taken his vows, had put his little bundle of books upon his back, had wandered to Zwolle and with a sigh of relief he had closed the door upon a turbulent world ...

— The Story of Mankind • Hendrik van Loon

... Izaak Walton himself would have approved; and there, while the seniors over their long pipes discussed politics and theology, and corn and cattle, the younger ones would make their first feeble efforts, all unconsciously, perhaps, to conjugate the verb 'to love.' Outside the church organizations these old yeomen lived and died. There was a flavour of the world about them. They would dine at market ordinaries, and perhaps would stop an hour in the long room of the public-house, where they put up their horses, to smoke ...

— East Anglia - Personal Recollections and Historical Associations • J. Ewing Ritchie

... metaphysical ideas in precise and often in beautiful language, who composed with ease and elegance in Arya, Totaka, and other difficult measures, were unacquainted with the rudiments of the language in which they wrote, and were unable to conjugate the verb to be in all its forms.... The more reasonable conjecture appears to be that the Gatha is the production of bards who were contemporaries or immediate successors of Sakya, who recounted to the devout congregations of the prophet of Magadha, the sayings ...

— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller

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