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conjugated

/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt.ɪd/

conjugated adjective: joined together in pairs. Also the simple past and past participle of conjugate.

Adjective

conjugated (comparative more conjugated, superlative most conjugated)

  1. Joined together in pairs.
  2. Containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/or lone pairs, each pair being separated by a single bond.
    • A major interest in the study of conjugated polymers in solution is the opportunity to investigate the relation between electronic properties and conformational disorder in low dimensional materials.1991, J.-P. Aime, Structural Characterization of Conjugated Solutions, J. L. Brédas, R. Silbey (editors), Conjugated Polymers, Kluwer Academic, page 296
    • The concept first reported in 1995 centers on the use of a fluorescent conjugated polymer that is functionalized with receptor sites for a target analyte molecule.2007, Kirk S. Schanze, Xiaoyong Zhao, 14: Structure-Property Relationships and Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes, Terje A. Skotheim, John R. Reynolds (editors), Conjugated Polymers: Theory...

Also used as

conjugated is also the simple past and past participle of conjugate.

Examples of conjugated in a sentence

  • Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.
  • Enzyme conjugated 2nd antibodies have been used by several workers to localizate antibodies in tissue sections (1).
  • The reservative form, which is conjugated throughout, has also separate causative and reciprocal bases.

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Forms of conjugated

comparativemore conjugated
superlativemost conjugated

Origin of conjugated

Inflected form of conjugate. Adjective sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Konjugation, konjugieren, coined 1899 by German chemist Johannes Thiele.

Words formed from conjugated

Phrases with conjugated

Questions about conjugated

What does conjugated mean?
Conjugated means joined together in pairs.
What part of speech is conjugated?
Conjugated is an adjective.
How do you pronounce conjugated?
Conjugated is pronounced /ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡeɪt.ɪd/ (US).

Words near conjugated in the dictionary

  1. conjugate redox pair
  2. conjugate redox pairs
  3. conjugate transpose
  4. conjugate transposes
  5. conjugate-linear
  6. conjugated
  7. conjugated protein
  8. conjugated proteins
  9. conjugately
  10. conjugateness
  11. conjugates

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