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CONJUGATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making or becoming a single unit
Example:
he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays
Synonyms:
conjugation; jointure; unification; union; uniting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
combination; combining; compounding (the act of combining things to form a new whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):
coalescence; coalescency; coalition; concretion; conglutination (the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts)
reunification; reunion (the act of coming together again)
tribalisation; tribalization (the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis)
umbrella (having the function of uniting a group of similar things)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
Example:
the mating of some species occurs only in the spring
Synonyms:
conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
sex; sex activity; sexual activity; sexual practice (activities associated with sexual intercourse)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):
assortative mating (mating of individuals having more traits in common than likely in random mating)
disassortative mating (mating of individuals having traits more dissimilar than likely in random mating)
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)
inbreeding (the act of mating closely related individuals)
service; servicing (the act of mating by male animals)
Derivation:
conjugate (undergo conjugation)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
category; class; family (a collection of things sharing a common attribute)
Derivation:
conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The complete set of inflected forms of a verb
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
Derivation:
conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The inflection of verbs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
inflection; inflexion (a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function)
Meronyms (members of "conjugation"):
verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)
Derivation:
conjugate (add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc.)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The state of being joined together
Synonyms:
colligation; conjugation; conjunction; junction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("conjugation" is a kind of...):
unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conjugation"):
anastomosis; inosculation (a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous)
synapse (the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle)
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes glutathione S-transferase theta-1 protein, is involved in the conjugation of reduced glutathione with both endogenous and exogenous hydrophobic electrophilic compounds.
(GSTT1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
DNP conjugation may enhance the immunogenicity of weakly immunogenic antigens.
(Autologous Dinitrophenyl-Modified Ovarian Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Conjugation of interferon to human albumin prolongs the half-life of IFNa-2b and thereby allows for a reduction in the frequency of dosing.
(Albinterferon Alfa-2b, NCI Thesaurus)
HPMA conjugation enhances the permeability and retention of this agent within the tumor vasculature.
(Doxorubicin-HPMA Conjugate, NCI Thesaurus)
Complement Degradation consists of conjugation, transport, oxidation, and/or proteolysis of complement system proteins; sequentially interacting serum proteins (some serine proteases), their receptors, and related regulatory proteins.
(Complement Degradation Process, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in the conjugation of sulfate to estrogens.
(Estrogen Sulfotransferase, NCI Thesaurus)
Phase II (conjugation) involves synthesis and conjugation.
(Drug Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus)
By induction of conjugation, transport, oxidation, and/or proteolysis, Adhesion Factor Degradation consists of breakdown of members of the class of cell surface proteins involved in cell-cell or cell-matrix attachment.
(Adhesion Factor Degradation Process, NCI Thesaurus)
Conjugation of the cytokine with a branched polyethylene glycol molecule significantly increases this agent's therapeutic half-life compared to filgrastim.
(Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar LA-EP2006, NCI Thesaurus)
After conjugation of the captured analyte to the bead, the beads are differentiated by their size and their spectral signature, allowing quantitation of analyte concentration in the sample.
(Multi-Analyte Fluorescent Detection, NCI Thesaurus)
