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copula
  1. (linguistics) A word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
  2. (statistics) A function that represents the association between two or more variables, independent of the individual marginal distributions of the variables.
  3. (music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
  4. (biology) The act of copulation; mating.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “They resemble them in that they are beliefs in being signified by the copula.”
      “In Hungarian, the zero copula occurs only in the third person, and in AAVE it is not permitted in the first person singular.”
      “The copula, is, serves to link the subject and predicate either as a form of classification or identification.”
copulative
  1. (obsolete) connection
  2. (grammar) A copulative conjunction.
copulation
  1. (countable) The act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “During copulation, the female transfers unfertilized eggs to the male's ventral surface, where fertilization takes place.”
      “Each male possesses two intromittent organs, one on either side of the body, only one of which is everted during a single copulation.”
      “Same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundreds of species, from bonobo apes to gulls.”
copulations
  1. plural of copulation
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    1. “Male mosquitofish do not court and copulations result exclusively from males forcibly inseminating females.”
      “For each male, we used the number of observed copulations as an estimate of his total copulatory success.”
      “The birds were fully habituated, and most copulations were observed at 5 m distance.”
copulatives
  1. plural of copulative
  2. Examples:
    1. “The scheme below represents a summary of the patterns of the identificative copulatives of Southern Ndebele in the indicative mood.”
copulae
  1. plural form of copula
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    1. “For a list of common verbs of this type in English, see List of English copulae.”
      “The theory of conjunctively tensed copulae will be developed and stated with more precision in the following section.”
      “Now Grande offers a new and unified perspective regarding morphemes combined with the Arabic noun, analyzing them as copulae.”
copulas
  1. plural of copula
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    1. “In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.”
      “Articles in this category consider the theory and application of copulas as well as the impact of linear and nonlinear dependencies among risks.”
      “Interlingua speakers use copulas with the same freedom as speakers of Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages.”
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