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English Dictionary: Connective by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): connection, connexion, connector, connecter, connective
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Connective \Con*nect"ive\, a.
      Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
  
      {Connection tissue} (Anat.) See {Conjunctive tissue}, under
            {Conjunctive}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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[91], lobes, or cells.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   connective
  
      An operator used in logic to combine two logical formulas.
      See {first order logic}.
  
  
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