Conjugation

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Conjugation or conjugate may refer to:

• Grammatical conjugation, the modification of a verb from its basic form
• Conjugate (algebra), used to rationalize the denominator of a fraction
• Conjugated systems of p-orbitals in chemical molecules
• Conjugation (biochemistry), the turning of substances into a hydrophilic state in the body
• Conjugation (acid-base theory), a system describing a conjugate acid-base pair
• Conjugation (group theory), the image of an element under the conjugation homomorphisms
• Conjugate (graph theory), an alternative term for a line graph, i.e. a graph representing the edge adjacencies of another graph

See also

• Conjugal (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "conjugation"
• All pages with titles containing "conjugate"
• Bacterial conjugation, a transfer of DNA without fusion
• Complex conjugation, the involution multiplying the imaginary part of a complex number by −1
• Conformal conjugation in complex dynamics
• Conjugation in group theory, related to matrix similarity in linear algebra
• Conjugate closure, the image of a subgroup under the conjugation homomorphisms
• Conjugate element (field theory), a generalization of complex conjugation
• Conjugate gradient method, an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations
• Conjugate focal plane
• Conjugate points, in differential geometry
• Conjugate prior, in Bayesian statistics, a family of probability distributions that contains a prior and the posterior distributions for a particular likelihood function (particularly for one-parameter exponential families)
• Conjugate pairing of probability distributions, in the Fourier-analytic theory of characteristic functions and statistical mechanics
• Conjugate quantities, observables that are linked by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
• Conjugate transpose of a matrix, especially the Hermitian transpose of a matrix
• Conjugate vaccine, in immunology
• Conjugate variables (thermodynamics), the internal energy of a system
• Conjugated system, a system of atoms covalently bonded with alternating single and multiple bonds
• Convex conjugate, the ("dual") lower-semicontinuous convex function resulting from the Legendre–Fenchel transformation of a "primal" function
• Dutch conjugation
• Harmonic conjugate in complex analysis
• Isogonal conjugate
• Inner automorphism, a type of conjugation homomorphism
• Sexual conjugation, a type of isogamy in eukaryotes
• Topological conjugation, which identifies equivalent dynamical systems

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