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{{Wiktionary}}
'''Conjugation''' or '''conjugate''' may refer to:
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==Linguistics==
*[[Grammatical conjugation]], the modification of a verb from its basic form
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*[[Emotive conjugation]] or Russell's conjugation, the use of loaded language

==Mathematics==
*[[Complex conjugation]], the change of sign of the imaginary part of a complex number
*[[Conjugate (square roots)]], the change of sign of a square root in an expression
*[[Conjugate element (field theory)]], a generalization of the preceding conjugations to roots of a polynomial of any degree 
*[[Conjugate transpose]], the complex conjugate of the transpose of a matrix
*[[Harmonic conjugate]] in complex analysis
*[[Conjugate (graph theory)]], an alternative term for a line graph, i.e. a graph representing the edge adjacencies of another graph
*In group theory, various notions are called conjugation: 
**[[Inner automorphism]], a type of conjugation homomorphism
**[[Conjugacy class]] in group theory, related to matrix similarity in linear algebra
**[[Conjugation (group theory)]], the image of an element under the conjugation homomorphisms
**[[Conjugate closure]], the image of a subgroup under the conjugation homomorphisms
*[[Free monoid#Conjugate words|Conjugate words]] in combinatorics; this operation on strings resembles conjugation in groups
*[[Isogonal conjugate]], in geometry
*[[Conjugate gradient method]], an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations
*[[Conjugate points]], in differential geometry
*[[Topological conjugation]], which identifies equivalent dynamical systems
*[[Convex conjugate]], the ("dual") lower-semicontinuous convex function resulting from the Legendre–Fenchel transformation of a "primal" function

==Probability and statistics==
* [[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 function (probability theory)|characteristic function]]s and statistical mechanics

==Science==
*[[Sexual conjugation]], a type of isogamy in unicellular eukaryotes
*[[Bacterial conjugation]], a mechanism of exchange of genetic material between bacteria
*[[Conjugate vaccine]], in immunology
*[[Conjugation (biochemistry)]], covalently linking a biomolecule with another molecule
*[[Conjugate (acid-base theory)]], a system describing a conjugate acid-base pair
*[[Conjugated system]], a system of atoms covalently bonded with alternating single and multiple bonds
*[[Conjugate variables (thermodynamics)]], pairs of variables that always change simultaneously
*[[Conjugate quantities]], observables that are linked by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
*[[Conjugate focal plane]], in optics
*[[Charge conjugation]]

==See also==
*[[Conjugal (disambiguation)]]
*[[Conjoint]]
*{{In title|conjugation}}
*{{In title|conjugate}}

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