Meaning of copulant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One engaged in sexual union.
2. Something that brings other things together into a unified whole.
3. A sign that represents the joining or unity of other signs.

Examples

“Those which produce copulable copulants in one individual are designated as monoecious, while those in which copulable copulants must come from different individuals are considered dioecious.”

“Concerning the copulation positions of Turbellaria in general, Hyman (1951a:127) stated, "Usually the copulants face more or less away from each other with the genital regions pressed together and often elevated, the rest of the body attached to the subtratum.”

“In some turbellarians and monogenetic trematodes, the sperm are first aggregated into spermatophores which are discharged into the fellow copulant (Hyman, 1951).”

“It is well known from chemistry that a fatty or oily element will not of itself unite with a watery, but must be united by means of saline copulants.”

“The copulants are likewise indispensable and have the property of being Continuant.”

“Since the classes are yielded by a static typology and not a dynamic process such as semiosis, it might be wiser to conceive the relation between subjects in terms of compatibility rather than state categorically that collectives determine copulants, for example: collectives are not only with the copulant, but also with the designative and descriptive facets of signs..”

“Examples of such continuous immediate objects, with respect to which a sign is said to be a copulant, include "_ is _," "if _ then _," "_ relatively to _ for _," "Whatever _," etc.”

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