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conjugacy

conjugacy noun: the condition or state of being conjugate.

Noun

conjugacy (countable and uncountable, plural conjugacies)

  1. The condition or state of being conjugate.
    • Because the gamma distribution is the conjugate prior for the precision parameter (#92;tau#61;1#47;#92;sigma²) of a univariate normal distribution, the Wishart distribution (as its multivariate generalization) extends conjugacy to the multivariate normal distribution.2012 May 25, Steven W. Nydick, The Wishart and Inverse Wishart Distributions

Forms of conjugacy

pluralconjugacies

Words formed from conjugacy

Phrases with conjugacy

Questions about conjugacy

What does conjugacy mean?
Conjugacy means the condition or state of being conjugate.
What part of speech is conjugacy?
Conjugacy is a noun.
What is the plural of conjugacy?
The plural of conjugacy is conjugacies.

Words near conjugacy in the dictionary

  1. conjuction
  2. conjuctival
  3. conjugability
  4. conjugable
  5. conjugacies
  6. conjugacy
  7. conjugacy class
  8. conjugacy classes
  9. conjugal
  10. conjugal act
  11. conjugal rights

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