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connecter, -or|kəˈnɛktə(r)|
[f. connect v. + -er1. The form connector is not on a L. type (the L. is connexor); but is favoured in the special senses under 2, on the analogy of specific terms in -or: see -or.]
1. One who, or that which, connects.
1815W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 500 Commerce, that connecter of nations. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. V. 110 Religion is..the connector of humanity with the Divine nature.
2. spec.
a. A small tube of india-rubber or other material for connecting glass or other tubes.
b. Electr. A device for holding two parts of a conductor in intimate contact.
c. A railway-coupling.
1795Wells in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 249, I accidentally applied the metal I had used as the connector..to the coating of the muscle only. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. 360 Connecters are short perforated pieces of metal..Their use is to connect together stop-cocks or other parts of apparatus. 1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. 794/1 A connector of caoutchouc. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Connector..of india-rubber for connecting..the ends of glass tubes.
3. attrib. use in Anat.
1916W. H. Gaskell Involuntary Nervous Syst. i. 2 The receptor element does not connect directly with the excitor element, but an intermediate neuron in the central nervous system unites the two; this I shall call throughout this book the ‘connector element’. Ibid., A connector neuron..may only connect after a series of communications with other connector neurons. 1920T. P. Nunn Education 166 Connector-axons which make their way to effector-neurones entirely outside the cord. 1953G. A. G. Mitchell Anat. Autonomic Nervous Syst. ii. 12 Afferent (receptor), intercalary (connector), and efferent (effector) neurons, linked together as reflex arcs. 1962Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 945 (heading) Internuncial or connector neurones. |