Connective Definition

kə-nĕktĭv
connectives
adjective
Connecting or serving to connect.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
connectives
One that connects.
American Heritage
Something that connects; esp., a word that connects phrases, clauses, or other words, as a conjunction or relative pronoun.
Webster's New World
An anther's lobe-connecting tissue that splits open, allowing the pollen to escape.
Webster's New World
The portion of a stamen that connects the halves of an anther.
American Heritage

(logic) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.

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Noun

Singular:
connective
Plural:
connectives

Origin of Connective

Connective Sentence Examples

  • The coils and branches of the tube are packed by connective tissue and blood spaces.

  • That portion of the filament in contact with the anther-lobes is termed the connective.

  • They appear, in fact, to be an air-holding modification of the vasifactive connective tissue.

  • The anther-lobes are united to the connective, which is either continuous with the filament or articulated with it.

  • When the filament is continuous with the connective, and is prolonged so that the anther-lobes appear to be united to it throughout their whole length, and lie in apposition to it and on both sides of it, the anther is said to be adnate or adherent; when the filament ends at the base of the anther, then the latter is innate or erect.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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