Conjugation

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Conjugation may refer to:

Grammatical conjugation, the modification of a verb from its basic form
- Latin conjugation, Spanish conjugation and The English verb, each with complex conjugation forms
Marriage, relationship between two individuals

In mathematics:

Complex conjugation, the operation which multiplies the imaginary part of a complex number by -1; see also conjugate element (field theory)
if a is an element of a group, then the map f(x) = axa^-1 is called conjugation by a. See inner automorphism, conjugacy class, conjugate closure, and conjugation of isometries in Euclidean space
Conjugate points, in differential geometry
Conjugate prior, in probability theory, a family of prior probability distributions

In science:

Bacterial conjugation, in biology, transmission of DNA between cells by contact other than fusion
Conjugated system, in organic chemistry, a system of atoms covalently bonded
Conjugate variables (thermodynamics), the internal energy of a system
In metabolism, conjugation is a biochemical process to bind a substance to an acid and thereby deactivating its biological activity, making it water-soluble, and facilitating its excretion
In quantum physics, two quantities are conjugates when they are linked by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, such as position and momentum, or energy and duration.