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adj
Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
That which connects.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
A connective tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, biology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences, zoology
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adjective satellite
connecting or tending to connect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
an instrumentality that connects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: connection, connexion, connector, connecter
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Broader terms: instrumentality, instrumentation
Narrower terms: attachment, bond, backbone, ground, earth, hitch, hookup, jumper, junction, conjunction, slip ring, telephone line, phone line, telephone circuit, subscriber line, line, temporary hookup, patch, yoke, coupling
noun
an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative
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Broader terms: function word, closed-class word
Narrower terms: coordinating conjunction, subordinating conjunction, subordinate conjunction
History
For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
