Definition of "conjugate" [con•ju•gate]

• Grammar To inflect (a verb) in its forms for distinctions such as number, person, voice, mood, and tense. (verb-transitive)
• To join together. (verb-transitive)
• Biology To undergo conjugation. (verb-intransitive)
• Grammar To be inflected. (verb-intransitive)
• Joined together, especially in a pair or pairs; coupled. (adjective)

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• ""For example, we believe it's feasible to create a C60-vancomycin conjugate that attaches to anthrax while it is still in the spore form.""
• "Rice Chemistry Professor Lon Wilson decided to create a buckyball-vancomycin conjugate following years of work developing biochemical targeting mechanisms for buckyballs, spherical cages containing 60 carbon molecules."
• "The polysaccharide attached to the protein is known as a conjugate vaccine."