conjugateとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒndʒəɡeɪt/

動詞

conjugate (三人称単数 現在形 conjugates, 現在分詞 conjugating, 過去形および過去分詞形 conjugated)

1. (grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.

   In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.

2. (mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3. (まれに) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 55:

     The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.

4. (biology, of bacteria かつ algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

上位語

• inflect

関連する語

参考

• decline

名詞

conjugate (複数形 conjugates)

1. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
2. (algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
3. (algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
4. (algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
5. (mathematics) An explementary angle.
6. (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
   • 17th c, John Bramhall,

     We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

7. (immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

形容詞

conjugate (not comparable)

1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
2. (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
3. (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
4. (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5. (mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.