conjugator

Noun

conjugator (plural conjugators)

1. An automated process or written aid for giving the conjugation table of verbs.
2. One who conjugates (a noun, verb, etc).
   • He has here shown that he is not a mere bookworm, a decliner of nouns and conjugator of verbs—not one who, as the old philosopher said, passed his life in anxiety because he could not discover whether the future of the verb βαλλω should be spelt with one λ or with two; […]1841 January, “Art. IX.—Critical Notices. 1. A Greek Reader, for the Use of Schools, containing Selections in Prose and Poetry, with English Notes and a Lexicon; adapted particularly to the Greek...
   • “The first question then which he proposed to every one in his order was ‘Quid dubitas?’ What doubts have you met with in your studies to-day? For he supposed that to doubt nothing, and to understand nothing, were nearly the same thing.” (Neale’s “History of the Puritans,” vol. ii. p. 311.) I...1860, Lawrence Peel, “His Early Life”, in A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sir Robert Peel, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, pages 45–46
3. A function g, such that there is a conjugation mapping x to gxg⁻¹.
   • Equation (10.9) represents the reflection coefficient of the phase conjugation and can be used to design phase conjugators.1994, Chai Yeh, Applied Photonics, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 204
   • Many different configurations of self-pumped phase conjugators relying on four-wave mixing to produce a phase-conjugate wave have been reported.1995, Marvin J. Weber, CRC Handbook of Laser Science and Technology Supplement 2: Optical Materials, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 450
4. One who forms conjugates (a weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together)
   • However, Brueton et al. (7) have demonstrated that infants fed human milk remain predominantly taurine conjugators of bile acids, whereas those fed taurine-deficient formulas become predominantly glycine conjugators of bile acids.1979, Esmail Meisami, Mary Agnes Burniston Brazier, editors, Neural Growth and Differentiation, Raven Press, →ISBN, page 473
   • Carnivores tend to be exclusive taurine conjugators of cholic acid (Table 4-8).1986, Ryan J. Huxtable, Biochemistry of Sulfur, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, →ISBN, page 165