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).
In group 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.
Topological conjugation, which identifies equivalent dynamical systems.
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.
Conjugate quantities, in quantum physics, are observables that are linked by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, such as position and momentum.

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