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Definition of Nexus

1. Noun. The means of connection between things linked in series.

Definition of Nexus

1. n. Connection; tie.

Definition of Nexus

1. Noun. a form of connection ¹

2. Noun. a connected group ¹

3. Noun. the centre of something ¹

4. Noun. (rare nonstandard) (plural of nexus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nexus

1. a connection or link [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Nexus

1. A connection or link. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nexus

Literary usage of Nexus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1872)
"For the purpose of expressing the combination of two consonants without the intervention of a vowel, as in kt, pl, sn, the term " nexus " is employed. ..."

2. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"This will not be true of such nexus as are defined, in their Interest, ... But it is true in general of Torts, ie, the Interest of the nexus (right) is ..."

3. Emanuel Swedenborg: His Life and Writings by William M. White (1867)
"Without a nexus the Finite could neither exist nor subsist. ' Unless the First Finites were related to the Infinite by a ' nexus of some kind they would be ..."

4. Mitterrand Legacy and the Future of French Security Policy by Ronald Tiersky (1996)
"CONCEPTS AND DOCTRINE THE NEW nexus OF SECURITY AND INTEGRATION In previous studies, a tentative conceptualization of the change from Cold War to post-Cold ..."

5. The Individual and Reality: An Essay Touching the First Principles of by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1909)
"We must assert, with Hegel, that " the nexus binding the Many with one another is by no ... And the nexus between the centres (which exemplify, but do not, ..."

6. The Formal Bases of Law by Giorgio Del Vecchio (1914)
"NEED OF DISTINCTION: THE FAULT OF THE ARISTOTELIAN THEORY. — INTRINSIC FINALITY OF NATURE AND THE MEASURE OF THE NATURALNESS OF NATURE. — "nexus ..."

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