A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
The act of abjuring.
abjurations
abjurations
noun
plural of abjuration
abjurement
abjurement
noun
(rare) renunciation
adjacent
adjacent
adj
(figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
noun
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
prep
(figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Next to; beside.
adjacently
adjacently
adv
In such a way as to be adjacent.
adjection
adjection
noun
Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
adjectional
adjectional
adj
Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
adjoinant
adjoinant
adj
(obsolete) Contiguous, adjoining.
adjoint
adjoint
adj
(geometry, of one curve to another curve) Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.
(mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).
(mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
noun
(geometry, algebraic geometry) A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.
(mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(mathematics, category theory) A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.
(mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.
An assistant mayor of a French commune.
An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
adjoints
adjoints
noun
plural of adjoint
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjudgment
adjudgment
noun
The action of imposing judgment.
adjudicating
adjudicating
verb
present participle of adjudicate
adjudication
adjudication
noun
(emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
(law) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
(law, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
A judgment or sentence.
The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
adjudications
adjudications
noun
plural of adjudication
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.
adjunct
adjunct
adj
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
noun
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
adjunction
adjunction
noun
(category theory) Given a pair of categories 𝒞 and 𝒟: an anti-parallel pair of functors F:𝒞→𝒟 and G:𝒟→𝒞 and a natural transformation 𝜂: mbox id_C→GF called “unit” such that for any object A∈𝒞, for any object B∈𝒟, and for any morphism f:A→GB, there is a unique morphism g:FA→B such that Gg∘𝜂_A=f. (Note: there is another natural transformation called “counit” as well but its existence may be derived by theorem.) The pair of functors express a similarity between the pair of categories which is weaker than that of an equivalence of categories.
(law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
adjunctions
adjunctions
noun
plural of adjunction
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adjunctively
adjunctively
adv
In an adjunctive way.
adjunctly
adjunctly
adv
In an adjunct manner.
adjuncts
adjuncts
noun
plural of adjunct
adjuntas
adjuration
adjuration
noun
A grave warning.
A solemn oath.
adjurations
adjurations
noun
plural of adjuration
adjustation
adjustation
noun
(rare) Adjustment.
adjusting
adjusting
noun
Adjustment.
verb
present participle of adjust
adjustment
adjustment
noun
The action of adjusting something
The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
The settling or balancing of a financial account
adjustmental
adjustmental
adj
Relating to adjustment.
adjustments
adjustments
noun
plural of adjustment
adjustoring
adjutancies
adjutancies
noun
plural of adjutancy
adjutancy
adjutancy
noun
The state or office of being an adjutant, assistant, or helper.
adjutant
adjutant
adj
Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
noun
(military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
(zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
An assistant.
adjutants
adjutants
noun
plural of adjutant
adjutantship
adjutantship
noun
The role or status of adjutant.
adjuvant
adjuvant
adj
(medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. [from 19th c.]
Helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.]
noun
(agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. [from mid 20th c.]
(immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.]
(medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. [from 18th c.]
(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]
Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]
adjuvants
adjuvants
noun
plural of adjuvant
ajanta
ajoint
ajutment
alentejo
alentejo
Proper noun
A traditional region in southern Portugal.
ammoniojarosite
ammoniojarosite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
anjanette
antejentacular
antejentacular
adj
(rare, formal) Occurring before breakfast.
antejudiciary
antejuramentum
antiejaculation
antihijack
antijam
antijam
adj
Preventing jamming (communications interference).
antijamming
antijamming
adj
Designed not to jam (become stuck).
Designed to prevent being jammed (communications interference).
antiprojectivity
antjar
apjohnite
apjohnite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.
argentojarosite
argentojarosite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silver, and sulfur.
aunjetitz
autojuggernaut
backjoint
backjoint
noun
(architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
banjoist
banjoist
noun
One who plays a banjo.
banjoists
banjoists
noun
plural of banjoist
baviaantje
bejant
bejant
noun
A first-year male student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
benjaminite
benjaminite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.
benjamite
benjamite
Noun
A Benjaminite.
betjeman
biconjugate
biconjugate
adj
(botany) paired twice
(mathematics) conjugate in two ways
bijection
bijection
noun
(set theory) A one-to-one correspondence, a function which is both a surjection and an injection.
bijections
bijections
noun
plural of bijection
blatjang
blatjang
noun
(South Africa) A spicy South African chutney.
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bluejoint
bostanji
bostanji
noun
(historical) One of the imperial guards of the Ottoman Empire.
cajolement
cajolement
noun
The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
cajolements
cajolements
noun
plural of cajolement
cajuputene
cajuputene
noun
(archaic, organic chemistry) An aromatic oil (mainly limonene) extracted from cajuput
catjang
catjang
noun
A cowpea native to Africa, Vigna unguiculata, sometimes Vigna unguiculata subsp. cylindrica, a densely-branched shrubby perennial grown for animal fodder or food.
cetinje
cetinje
Proper noun
A city in the southwest of Montenegro, the historical capital of Montenegro (1878-1918).
cholecystojejunostomy
cholecystojejunostomy
noun
(surgery) anastomosis of the gallbladder and the jejunum
circumadjacent
circumadjacent
adj
Lying immediately around
circumjacent
circumjacent
adj
(archaic, literary) Lying or located in the area around something.
coadjacent
coadjacent
adj
Mutually adjacent; contiguous.
coadjacently
coadjument
coadjument
noun
Mutual help; cooperation.
coadjustment
coadjustment
noun
mutual adjustment
coadjutant
coadjutant
adj
Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
coadjutement
coadjuvant
coadjuvant
adj
cooperating
noun
(medicine) An adjuvant.
codisjunct
conject
conject
verb
(obsolete) To conjecture.
(obsolete) To throw together, or to throw.
conjective
conjecturable
conjecturable
adj
Able to be conjectured upon.
conjecturableness
conjecturably
conjecturably
adv
In a conjecturable manner
conjectural
conjectural
adj
In the nature of a conjecture, or based on a conjecture.
noun
Something that is conjectural; a conjecture.
conjecturalist
conjecturalist
noun
One who forms conjectures.
conjecturality
conjecturality
noun
The property of being conjectural.
conjecturally
conjecturally
adv
In a conjectural manner.
conjecture
conjecture
noun
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
(obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
verb
(formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.
(transitive) To infer on slight evidence; to guess at.
conjectured
conjectured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conjecture
conjecturer
conjecturer
noun
a person who conjectures
conjecturers
conjecturers
noun
plural of conjecturer
conjectures
conjectures
noun
plural of conjecture
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjecture
conjecturing
conjecturing
noun
The forming of conjectures.
verb
present participle of conjecture
conjegates
conjoint
conjoint
adj
joined together; combined; joint
conjointly
conjointly
adv
In a conjoint manner; jointly or together
conjointment
conjointment
noun
(rare) conjunction (state of being conjoined)
conjointness
conjointness
noun
The state or quality of being conjoint.
conjoints
conjubilant
conjubilant
adj
(archaic) Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together.
conjuctiva
conjugality
conjugality
noun
The condition of being conjugal.
The conjugal state; marriage; sexual intercourse.
conjugant
conjugant
noun
(genetics) A gamete that undergoes conjugation
conjugata
conjugatae
conjugate
conjugate
adj
(botany) In single pairs; coupled.
(chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
(grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
(mathematics) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
noun
(algebra) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
(algebra, field theory, of an element of an extension field) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
(algebra, of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
(grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
(immunology) A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
(mathematics) An explementary angle.
Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
verb
(biology, of bacteria and algae) To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
(grammar, transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
(mathematics) To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
(rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
conjugated
conjugated
adj
(organic chemistry, of an organic compound or part of such a compound) Containing one or more pairs of double bonds and/or lone pairs, each pair being separated by a single bond.
Joined together in pairs.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of conjugate
conjugately
conjugately
adv
In a conjugate manner.
conjugateness
conjugateness
noun
The quality of being conjugate.
conjugates
conjugates
noun
plural of conjugate
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conjugate
conjugating
conjugating
noun
conjugation
verb
present participle of conjugate
conjugation
conjugation
noun
(biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction
(chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds
(grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs according to what inflections they take.
(grammar) The act or process of conjugating a verb.
(grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
(mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; complex conjugation
(mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements of a group; inner automorphism
Sexual relations within marriage
The coming together of things; union.
conjugational
conjugational
adj
Of or pertaining to conjugation
conjugationally
conjugationally
adv
In terms of conjugation.
conjugations
conjugations
noun
plural of conjugation
conjugative
conjugative
adj
Of, relating to, or producing combination or conjunction; combinative or connective.
conjugator
conjugator
noun
An automated process or written aid for giving the conjugation table of verbs.
conjugators
conjugators
noun
plural of conjugator
conjunct
conjunct
adj
Acting together; collaborative.
Conjoined.
noun
(linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
(logic) Either term of a conjunction.
conjuncted
conjunction
conjunction
noun
(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.
(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.
A place where multiple things meet
Cooccurrence; coincidence.
The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
conjunctional
conjunctional
adj
(linguistics) Pertaining to, or governed by, a conjunction.
Conjoining.
conjunctionally
conjunctionally
adv
In a conjunctional manner; with regard to conjunction
conjunctions
conjunctions
noun
plural of conjunction
conjunctiva
conjunctiva
noun
(anatomy) A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.
conjunctivae
conjunctivae
noun
plural of conjunctiva
conjunctival
conjunctival
adj
(relational) Of or relating to the conjunctiva.
Serving to join or connect.
conjunctivas
conjunctive
conjunctive
adj
(astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptical longitude).
(grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
(grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
(grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
(grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
(logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
(obsolete) Closely united.
noun
(grammar) A conjunction.
(logic) A conjunction.
conjunctively
conjunctively
adv
In a conjunctive way.
conjunctiveness
conjunctiveness
noun
Synonym of conjunctivity
conjunctives
conjunctives
noun
plural of conjunctive
conjunctivitis
conjunctivitis
noun
(pathology) An inflammation of the conjunctiva, often due to infection.