Nexus Definition

nĕksəs
nexuses
noun
nexuses
A connection, tie, or link between individuals of a group, members of a series, etc.
Webster's New World
The group or series so connected.
Webster's New World
A center or focal point.
Webster's New World

A form of connection.

Wiktionary

The centre of something.

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Other Word Forms of Nexus

Noun

Singular:
nexus
Plural:
nexuses

Origin of Nexus

  • Latin from past participle of nectere to bind ned- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin nexus (“the act of binding together; bond"), from nectō (“bind").

    From Wiktionary

Nexus Sentence Examples

  • Knowledge involves synthesis or nexus.

  • There is a nexus between each leading group of social phenomena and other leading groups; if there is a change in one of them, that change is accompanied by a corresponding modification of all the rest.

  • It's a complex nexus of nerves at the base of your brain.

  • Nexus means "binding together" or "connecting."

  • He imagined opening it and letting out a nexus of multi-coloured wires, or bloody entrails.

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Words Starting With

NNENEX

Words Ending With

SUSXUS

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Words Starting With N and Ending With S

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With N5 Letter Words Ending With S