Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
connective en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
Meanings
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(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
Etymology
For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
Meanings
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That which connects.
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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:
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A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
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The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
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A connective tissue.
Forms
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)