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n. (state) | 1. colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction | the state of being joined together. |
| ~ 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.; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the action of neurotransmitters" |
| ~ unification, union | the state of being joined or united or linked.; "there is strength in union" |
n. (linkdef) | 2. conjugation | the inflection of verbs. |
| ~ verb | the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence. |
| ~ inflection, inflexion | a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function. |
n. (group) | 3. conjugation | the complete set of inflected forms of a verb. |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
n. (group) | 4. conjugation | a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms. |
| ~ category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
n. (act) | 5. conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union | the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" |
| ~ sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice | activities associated with sexual intercourse.; "they had sex in the back seat" |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, cross, crossing | (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. |
| ~ servicing, service | the act of mating by male animals.; "the bull was worth good money in servicing fees" |
n. (act) | 6. conjugation, jointure, unification, union, uniting | the act of making or becoming a single unit.; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" |
| ~ compounding, combining, combination | the act of combining things to form a new whole. |
| ~ coalescence, coalescency, conglutination, coalition, concretion | 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.; "monetary unification precipitated the reunification of the German state in October 1990" |
| ~ tribalisation, tribalization | the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis. |
| ~ umbrella | having the function of uniting a group of similar things.; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism" |
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