Nexus

Noun

nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus)

A form or state of connection.

Synonyms: bond, junction, link, tie; see also Thesaurus

A connected group; a network, a web.

Etymology

From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectāre + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).

• Nectāre is the second-person singular present passive subjunctive of nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”), from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”).

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