Connective

  • 11connective — 1. adjective 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… …

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  • 12connective — In formal logic a connective is an element of a sentence that joins parts in such a way that the logical properties of the whole are a defined function of the logical properties of the parts. The most familiar connectives are those expressing the …

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  • 13connective — adj. Connective is used with these nouns: ↑tissue …

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  • 14connective — con|nec|tive1 [ kə nektıv ] adjective FORMAL joining things together connective con|nec|tive 2 [ kə nektıv ] noun count LINGUISTICS a CONJUNCTION …

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  • 15connective — [[t]kəne̱ktɪv[/t]] connectives N COUNT A connective is the same as a conjunction …

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  • 16connective — con nec·tive || ktɪv adj. serving to join or link n. link, connection; connective word, word which joins …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 17connective — 1 adjective joining two or more things together: a lack of connective knowledge 2 noun (C) technical a word that joins phrases, parts of sentences etc …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 18connective — adj. & n. adj. serving or tending to connect. n. something that connects. Phrases and idioms: connective tissue Anat. a fibrous tissue that supports, binds, or separates more specialized tissue …

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  • 19Connective tissue — is a fibrous tissue.[1] It is one of the four traditional classes of tissues (the others being epithelial, muscle, and nervous tissue). Connective Tissue (CT) is found throughout the body.In fact the whole framework of the skeleton and the… …

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  • 20Connective tissue disease — Classification and external resources MeSH D003240 A connective tissue disease is any disease that has the connective tissues of the body as a target of pathology. Connective tissue is any type of biological tissue with an extensive extracellular …

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