[syn: connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. connecting or tending to connect;
- Example: "connective remarks between chapters"
- Example: "connective tissue in animals"
- Example: "conjunctive tissue in plants"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, a.
Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
[1913 Webster]
Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under
Conjunctive.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, n.
That which connects. Specifically:
(a) (Gram.) A word that connect words or sentences; a
conjunction or preposition.
(b) (Bot.) That part of an anther which connects its
thec[ae], lobes, or cells.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
connective
adj 1: connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks
between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals";
"conjunctive tissue in plants"
n 1: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words
or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: conjunction,
conjunctive, connective, continuative]
2: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the
connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the
amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion,
connector, connecter, connective]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
connective
An operator used in first order logic to combine two
logical formulas.
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