connective
Speech parts
1. connective - Noun
2. connective - Adjective
3. connective - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.
That which connects
A word that connect words or sentences; a conjunction or preposition.
That part of an anther which connects its thecae, lobes, or cells.
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Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.
I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas.
Structural concept in nature: The grouping of the smallest recognizable entities in matter: Bone matter is cellular or tubular. Ligament structure is a sinuous-fibrous web. Tendons are continuous with the connective tissue of the muscle, strengthened by cross grain.
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
After my first encounter with (UDC) for the Akers library, I became increasingly interested in problems of information organisation for retrieval. My first paper in the field was "The Structure of a Connective Index" (Vickery, 1950).
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.