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释义 conjugation
 —conjugational,  adj.   —conjugationally,  adv.  
 /kon'jeuh gay"sheuhn/,  n.  
  1.  Gram.  
   a. the inflection of verbs.
   b. the whole set of inflected forms of a verb or the recital or display thereof in a fixed order: The conjugation of the Latin verb amo begins amo, amas, amat.
   c. a class of verbs having similar sets of inflected forms: the Latin second conjugation.
  2. an act of joining: a conjugation of related ideas.
  3. the state of being joined together; union; conjunction.
  4.  Biol.  
   a. the reproductive process in ciliate protozoans in which two organisms of different mating types exchange nuclear material through a temporary area of fusion.
   b. temporary union or permanent fusion as a form of sexual reproduction in certain algae and fungi, the male gametes of one organism uniting with female gametes of the other.
   c. a temporary union of two bacteria, in Escherichia and related groups, in which genetic material is transferred by migration of a plasmid, either solitary or as part of a chromosome, from one bacterium, the donor, to the other, the recipient; sometimes also including the transfer of resistance to antibiotics.
 [1400-50; late ME conjugacion ( < AF) < LL conjugation- (s. of conjugatio), equiv. to conjugat(us) (see CONJUGATE) + -ion- -ION]
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