nexus

nexus

noun

Definition of NEXUS

1

a series of things linked together <the oft-repeated claim that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person through a nexus of six relationships>

Synonyms catena, catenation, concatenation, consecution, nexus, progression, sequence, string, train

Related Words chain reaction; belt, circle, cycle, vicious circle (also vicious cycle); continuum, gamut, gauntlet (also gantlet), scale, spectrum; flow, river, stream; file, line, queue, range, row, succession

2

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest <as the nexus for three great religions, Jerusalem has had a troubled as well as illustrious history>

Synonyms axis, base, capital, central, core, cynosure, epicenter, eye, focus, ground zero, heart, hub, locus, mecca, navel, nerve center, nexus, nucleus, omphalos, seat

Related Words headquarters; happy hunting ground, hive, hotbed, hot spot, playground, playland; kernel, nub, pith; deep, thick; essence, quintessence, soul; attraction, lodestone (also loadstone), magnet, polestar