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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
connector
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A further four days had elapsed and both Patrick and Tracey were playing with the connector rods.
▪ As Windows looks at it, your modem is just another kind of network connector.
▪ Some types have one plain end to take a second connector Elbows for taking pipes around corners.
▪ This was traced to the main power connector, where the plug hadn't been properly pushed home.
▪ Two pipes are then attached to this connector.
▪ You then push the cable connector on to one side of the T-connector and give the lock ring a twist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Connector

Connector \Con*nect"or\, n. One who, or that which, connects; as:

  1. A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.

  2. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
connector

1795, "tube for connecting other materials," agent noun in Latin form from connect and usefully distinct from connecter.

Wiktionary
connector

n. 1 One who connects. 2 A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary. 3 A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the

  1. 5 mile (

  2. 5 kilometer) Wikipedia:U.S. Route 24 Connector (Taylor, Michigan). 4 (context computing English) A line connecting two shapes in presentation software. 5 (context computing English) A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.

WordNet
connector

n. an instrumentality that connects; "he soldered the connection"; "he didn't have the right connector between the amplifier and the speakers" [syn: connection, connexion, connecter, connective]

Wikipedia
Connector (mathematics)

In mathematics, a connector is a map which can be defined for a linear connection and used to define the covariant derivative on a vector bundle from the linear connection.

Category:Connection (mathematics)

Connector

Connector may refer to:

  • Electrical connector, a device for joining electrical circuits together (sometimes known as ports, plugs, or interfaces)
    • Gender of connectors and fasteners
    • AC power plugs and sockets, devices that allow electrically operated equipment to be connected to the primary alternating current power supply in a building
    • RF connector, an electrical connector designed to work at radio frequencies in the multi-megahertz range
    • Circular connector
    • Cigarette lighter receptacle
    • Blind mate connector, a connector with self-aligning features
    • Board-to-board connector, for connecting printed circuit boards
  • Connector (computer science), a pointer or link between two data structures
  • Java EE Connector Architecture, a Java-based technology solution for connecting application servers and enterprise information systems
  • Connector (mathematics), a mathematical mapping
  • Connector (social), people who help others by connecting them together
  • Connector (road), a highway or freeway road that connects to another highway or freeway
  • Connector (I the Mighty album), an album by rock band I the Mighty
Connector (road)

A connector is a highway or freeway road that connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange such as the MacArthur Maze or a longer roadway such as the Interstate 635.

A connector route is a type of special route or supplemental route in the United States that serves as a connector, connecting one route to a more prominent route. Connector routes are found among the United States Numbered Highways and among some state route systems like Michigan and Nebraska.

Connector routes can also be designated as a routing between two numbered highways. For example, Connector M-44 runs along Plainfield Avenue between Interstate 96 and M-44 north of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Category:Types of roads

Connector (I the Mighty album)

Connector is the second major label album, third overall (as they released We Speak in 2010), from American rock band I the Mighty, released on June 2, 2015 through Equal Vision Records.

Usage examples of "connector".

He sat there another moment, then picked up the connector cable and reinserted it into the jack behind his ear.

Only, one of their crates got lost in transit, then they had a problem with some weird connectors and had to have replacements airfreighted from Taiwan.

Along with bags of cotton ready to be turned into nitrocellulose, and multiple Casio watches, wires, connectors, lightbulbs, and fuses, Yousef purchased a series of small portable 60-Hz Tecnogas model Tec-6 heating stoves.

She picked up the telephone, clamping the handset down into its cradle with her thumb, and rotated it around, looking at all the tiny little switches and jacks and plugs and connectors.

The ruff on her neck bucked up, pulling a frightening tangle of rootlike connectors out of her flesh and into the air.

Large arrays of cylindrical structures and their chaperoning conduits and connectors were at once majestic yet stylized in design.

You build the armature, see, which means you have to crap around with relays and solenoids and connectors and power-shunts and gate-nexuses and such.

She catches the connectors and becomes absorbed in wiring them into the old console.

When they finished planting the spikes, they attached the cables, looped them over the hull, and used a series of clips, clamps, and connectors to lock them in place.

He began to touch thingsfittings, switches, connectors, small units of unknown potential.

Some of them went so far as to steal wireless jack connectors so that they wouldn't have to face the real world at all.

Each connector had to be fitted with a round airtight hatch, so if we lost pressure in one of the outer tanks we could close and dog that hatch and still be in business.

Its connector of steel-jacketed wire had been neatly severed by some vandal, who seemed to have gone to the trouble of using a cutting torch.

She wound the car over to Alexander Avenue, once a gravel road serving as a connector between the city and the country, but now a conduit from which people drove in and out of the suburban homes.

Once they were on the airport connector road, he picked up a plastic folder from beside him on the front seat and tossed it back to Vickers.