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Nexus   /nˈɛksəs/   Listen
Nexus

noun
1.
The means of connection between things linked in series.  Synonym: link.
2.
A connected series or group.






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"Nexus" Quotes from Famous Books



... no secret of approving was their substitution of human relations between employer and employed for the detestable "nexus of cash payment," as Carlyle calls it. That is only a return to the good old order, and it seems to me that it becomes more impossible every day. Thus far I am with the Socialists, in that I denounce the commercial ...
— Demos • George Gissing

... the college orchestra, minister to the specialized interests of some students, and the dramatic association to those of others. One significant result of such activities has been to establish a nexus between ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... "proved" if the proofs that already lie before us are not sufficient. How often has it been repeated that the scientific certainty of the hypothesis of descent is not grounded in this or that isolated experiment, but in the collective sum of biological phenomena; in the causal nexus of evolution. Then what are the new proofs of the theory of descent which ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel

... Causa resoluit? Quis tanta deus Veris statuit bella duobus, Vt quae carptim singula constent Eadem nolint mixta iugari? 5 An nulla est discordia ueris Semperque sibi certa cohaerent? Sed mens caecis obruta membris Nequit oppressi luminis igne Rerum tenues noscere nexus. 10 Sed cur tanto flagrat amore Veri tectas reperire notas? Scitne quod appetit anxia nosse? Sed quis nota scire laborat? At si nescit, quid caeca petit? 15 Quis enim quidquam nescius optet Aut quis ualeat nescita sequi? Quoue inueniat, quisque[173] repertam Queat ignarus ...
— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

... from their premises, the nexus is lost, and the argument with its rightful conclusions, becomes correspondingly ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain



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