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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, adjective Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
{Connection tissue} (Anat.) See {Conjunctive tissue}, under {Conjunctive}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Connective \Con*nect"ive\, noun 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[ae], lobes, or cells.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
connective
adjective: connecting or tending to connect; "connective remarks between chapters"; "connective tissue in animals"; "conjunctive tissue in plants"
noun
1: an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences [syn: {conjunction}, {conjunctive}]
2: an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: {connection}, {connexion}, {connector}, {connecter}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
connective An operator used in logic to combine two logical formulas. See {first order logic}.
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