adjugate

American

[aj-oo-git, -geyt] / ˈædʒ ʊ gɪt, -ˌgeɪt /

noun

Mathematics Now Rare.

adjoint.

Etymology

Origin of adjugate

ad- + (con)jugate

Example Sentences

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He condemns the insertion of a multitude of words which do not belong to the language, mentioning such unnaturalized foreigners as adversable, advesperate, adjugate, agriculation, abstrude, injudicable, spicosity, crapulence, morigerous, tenebrosity, balbucinate, illachrymable, etc., words to which the reader may, if he knows Latin, attach some sort of meaning, but which he would be slow to introduce into his speech or writing.

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