the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" couplingmatingpairingconjugationunionsexual union
the act of making or becoming a single unit "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" unionunificationunitingconjugationjointure
a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms conjugation
the complete set of inflected forms of a verb conjugation