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nexus

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Word definitions for nexus in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nexus ("bond, hub, or center of a network") may refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a form of connection 2 a connected group 3 the centre of something

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "bond, link, means of communication," from Latin nexus "that which ties or binds together," past participle of nectere "to bind," from PIE root *ned- "to bind, tie" (see net (n.)).

Usage examples of nexus.

We do not turn from it--no, we enter into it freely, as the alembic of our own Transformation, the power nexus of our change.

The cruel incongruity of that stab of angelic joy in the midst of the pain of dying is the emotional nexus linking the autobiographical vignette to the nightmarish fantasy.

Then, even before the Hegira, you moved your bubble memories and servers and core storage nexus to a cluster of asteroids in long orbit around the sun, far from the Old Earth you planned to destroy .

Impatiently the Krang waited for further orders from the activation Nexus.

The captain flattened the propulsion fields and slewed the ship sideways at a right angle to the course line, then even before the frigate was reoriented, pulsed the de-energizers twice more on the nexus linch point between the shields of two towers.

Lord of the Nexus drove the wedge of his magic inside the sigla, forced them apart.

He traced the sigla for his father and then his father was a bloody, mangled body and then his father was the Lord of the Nexus, whipping Haplo with the cane of the rosebush.

In a cortical nexus lying under the weight of pain and blurry not-pain, the remains of his mind and spirit picked over the few scraps of sensory data that impinged upon the living corpse that his body had become.

Judith had informed him, at the Class Four home of a certain Brose Cashdan, an administrator of the intercontinental stat nexus.

His experience before the Revolution had been that of a surveyor and land agent, and in this business he had apparently gone below the surface and had thought over that great nexus of social, political, and economic questions that centre on that of the proprietorship of the soil.

I told you that the Synod had identified you as a nexus in the reticulum, a critical junction.

A favorable line of occurrence, indeed, but that was Torve for you: a nexus.

Capitalist System as it was called, came to disaster in the second and third decades of the twentieth century because of the disproportionate development of its industrial production, the unsoundness and vulnerability of its monetary nexus, and its political inadaptability.

I could now, that that man driving a European sports car rather too fast through the main highway nexus was probably a supporter of the Citizens of Vados, and that consequently the long-faced Amerind lighting a candle and crossing himself before the wall shrine in the market was prepared to hate him on principle.

Develop the nexus region at the outset, then develop the Anchors in sectors until we have a working ecosystem in each.