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connective en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈnɛktɪv/
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Etymology

For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
    • Society is doomed to an ignominious death as soon as the connective tissue of institutions and the ossified material of officialdom with its rank growth of unyielding red tape and formalism begin to spread, choking, and strangling the free, personal life of the individual. 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

Deriveds

interconnective · logical connective · connectivist · sentence connective · connectivism · teleconnective · hypoconnective · fibroconnective · hyperconnective · connective tissue · connectivity · nonconnective

Synonyms

syndetic

connective en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈnɛktɪv/
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • (US) audio

Etymology

For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.

Meanings

  1. That which connects.
  2. A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
    • Condition iii) ensures that the truth-rules for the sentential connectives and quantifiers are satisfied within one and the same valuation νₛ. 2008 October 8, Holger Andreas, “Another Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Terms”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
  3. A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
  4. The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
  5. A connective tissue.

Forms

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Deriveds

sentential connective (A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.) · connectively · connectiveness

Relateds

equivalence · implication · disjunction · negation · conjunction

Synonyms

connective · connexive

Translations (11)

pl spójnik (function that operates on truth values) · fi konnektiivi (function that operates on truth values) · de Konnektiv (word used to connect) · is samtenging (function that operates on truth values) · is tengill (function that operates on truth values) · is tenging (function that operates on truth values) · pt conectivo (function that operates on truth values) · de Konnektor (word used to connect) · cy cysylltair (word used to connect) · sv konnektiv (function that operates on truth values) · ro conectiv (function that operates on truth values)