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nexus (neksəs)

noun pl. nex·uses or nexus

  1. a connection, tie, or link between individuals of a group, members of a series, etc.
  2. the group or series connected

Etymology: L < pp. of nectere, to tie

nexus Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • explore: The proposed framework in the paper provides an exciting opportunity to explore the research-teaching nexus in greater depth.
  • create: Singer utilizes 40 years of comic book background to create a believable nexus of characterisation built on a strong central theme.
  • become: Once relatively stable, even sleepy, Karachi became a nexus for drug and arms trafficking in the 1980s.
  • have: To the extent that these reforms have a direct nexus to external developments, we welcome them.

Preposition: between

  • man: Cash payment became more and more, in Carlyle's phrase, the sole nexus between man and man.

Adjective modifier

  • causal: Newton's theory is probably the greatest stride ever made in the effort toward the causal nexus of natural phenomena.
  • complex: It's a complex nexus of nerves at the base of your brain.
  • whole: It's about a whole nexus of social, scientific and economic factors.

Modifies a noun

  • ops: Nexus Ops is part of the range of ' new ' Avalon Hill games.
  • node: The destination content nodes are in the same nexus node.
  • requirement: Registrants in the.usTLD must satisfy the nexus requirement ( " Nexus " or " Nexus Requirements " ) set out at: http://www.neustar.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf.
  • point: I looked for nexus points between the two worlds.
  • staff: Nexus staff are among the first in the region to complete NVQs in railroad engineering.

Noun used with modifier

  • teaching-research: To be fair I have yet to see a UK research strategy take its commitment to the teaching-research nexus seriously.
  • research-teaching: The proposed framework in the paper provides an exciting opportunity to explore the research-teaching nexus in greater depth.
  • teaching/research: Jenkins and Zetter ( 2003 ) provide a very useful discussion of how the Teaching/Research nexus is central to Higher Education.
  • cash: The gigantic cash nexus we call football will remain.
  • operator: Metro is the ideal way to see the Tall Ships, says operator Nexus.
  • teaching: The session will begin with an introduction to the general issues surrounding the teaching -research nexus.

Preposition: of

  • power: This is hardly surprising, given that this trinity probably represents the nexus of power in most western societies.
nexus Quotes

   New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.

—Didion,Joan

In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.

—Carlyle,Thomas

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