nexus

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) A form or state of connection.
2. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable) A form or state of connection.
3. (countable, uncountable) A connected group; a network, a web.
4. (countable, uncountable) A centre or focus of something.
5. (countable, uncountable) In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
6. (Ancient-Rome, countable, historical, uncountable) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.

Synonyms

link

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connection

tie

conjunction

linkage

bond

concatenation

battery

🔋

connexion

association

ligament

hookup

block

band

interconnection

affiliation

liaison

set

touch

vinculum

context

contact

ties

relation

company

coherence

clutch

binding

cluster

concatenate

chapter

bind

center

catenation

bearing

attachment

articulate

catenate

contiguity

cascade

bridge

consequence

bracket

copulation

core

couple

👫

coupled

coupling

covey

battalion

Translations

nesso

nexo

nexus

legame

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vínculo

Nexus

rabıta

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Verbindung

Verknüpfung

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lien

connessione

centro

verbinding

liaison

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnɛksəs/

Etymology

From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).