defective virus one that cannot be completely replicated or cannot form a protein coat; in some cases replication can proceed if missing gene functions are supplied by other viruses; see also helper virus.
subjugate - put down by force or intimidation; The government quashes any attempt of an uprising; China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently; The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
The adjugate of A is the transpose of the cofactor matrix C of A, In more detail, suppose R is a commutative ring and A is an nÃn matrix with entries from R. The (i,j) minor of A, denoted Mij, is the determinant of the (n â 1)Ã(n â 1) matrix that results from deleting row i and column j of A.