conjugation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of conjugating.
• noun The state of being conjugated.
• noun The inflection of a particular verb.
• noun A presentation of the complete set of inflected forms of a verb.
• noun A class of verbs having similar inflected forms.
• noun The temporary union of two bacterial cells during which one cell transfers part or all of its genome to the other.
• noun A process of sexual reproduction in which ciliate protozoans of the same species temporarily couple and exchange genetic material.
• noun A process of sexual reproduction in certain algae and fungi in which temporary or permanent fusion occurs, resulting in the union of the male and female gametes.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of uniting or combining; a coming together; union; conjunction; assemblage.
• noun Ingrammar: The inflection of a verb in its different forms, as voices, moods, tenses, numbers, and persons; a connected scheme of all the derivative forms of a verb.
• noun A class of verbs similarly conjugated: as, Latin verbs of the third conjugation.
• noun In Hebrew and other Semitic languages, one of several groups of inflections normally formed from the same verb, and expressing a modification of meaning analogous to that found in certain classes of derivative verbs in Indo-European languages, or to the voices of these.
• noun A union or coupling; a combination of two or more individuals. [Obsolete except in specific use. See 4.]
• noun In biol, a union of two distinct cells for reproduction; a temporary or permanent growing together of two or more individuals or cells, with fusion of their plasmodic substance, as a means of reproduction by germs or spores, or a means of renewing individual capacity to multiply by fission.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
• noun obsolete Two things conjoined; a pair; a couple.
• noun The act of conjugating a verb or giving in order its various parts and inflections.
• noun A scheme in which are arranged all the parts of a verb.
• noun A class of verbs conjugated in the same manner.
• noun (Biol.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The coming together of things.
• noun biology The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
• noun Sexual relations within marriage
• noun grammar In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
• noun grammar The act of conjugating a verb.
• noun grammar The conjugated forms of a verb.
• noun chemistry A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
• noun mathematics A mapping sending x to gxg-1, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
• noun mathematics A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the state of being joined together
• noun a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
• noun the inflection of verbs
• noun the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
• noun the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
• noun the act of making or becoming a single unit