<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Grammar: the inflection of verbs.</li><li>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 amō, amas, amat.</li><li>a class of verbs having similar sets of inflected forms: the Latin second conjugation.</li><li>an act of joining: a conjugation of related ideas.</li><li>the state of being joined together; union; conjunction.</li><li>Biology: the reproductive process in ciliate protozoans in which two organisms of different mating types exchange nuclear material through a temporary area of fusion.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>