conjugate : Idioms & Phrases

• noun either of two complex numbers whose real parts are identical and whose imaginary parts differ only in sign
  

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• (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci.

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• (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other.

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• (Opt.) See under Focus.

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• (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus.

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• (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and Double point.

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• noun a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A
  conjugate.
  

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• noun a protein complex combining amino acids with other substances
  compound protein.
  

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Self`-con"ju*gate adjective

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1. (Geom.) Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles.

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• (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic.

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