Definition of connective
: serving to connect
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In the days after another mortifying tournament termination, two paths materialized in front of Cook, the sole connective thread remaining from those three seasons.
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Porsche’s chase for pounds even drove it to replace the anti-roll bars and their connective hardware with carbon-fiber pieces (saving 11.9 pounds) and to swap the shift paddles and some steering-wheel trim for carbon fiber (saving 0.5 pound).
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Families can use the connective powers of their devices for good — and it can be done without cramping anyone’s social media style.
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Shark bodies are largely made of this firm, white connective substance—which does not fossilize well.
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Peel away the veil of doubt, and there could hardly be a more ringing endorsement of an artist whose workings, methods, exuberance and connective spirit knew no bounds.
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Organizers, candidates, and black citizens will be investing in the development of their communities and lives through the impacts of leadership, representation, and connective messaging.
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The Swiss sensation captured her third connective victory on the Big Island with a stellar finish of 8:50:47.
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All of this takes place amid a gorgeous, outlandish backdrop: a pan-Asian technomagic world in which matter and energy may be manipulated by the Slack, a kind of invisible field of connective threads that controls gravity, electricity and more.
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First Known Use of connective
circa 1660
Definition of connective
: something that connects: such as
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: a linguistic form that connects words or word groups
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: a logical term (such as or, if-then, and, not) or a symbol for it that relates propositions in such a way that the truth or falsity of the resulting statement is determined by the truth or falsity of the components
First Known Use of connective
1751
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Definition of connective for English Language Learners
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grammar : a word (such as and ) that connects words or groups of words
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