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connexity|kəˈnɛksɪtɪ|
[a. F. connexité, med.L. connexitās = connexio (Du Cange), f. F. connexe, L. co(n)nexus, connex a.: see -ity.]
1. The quality of being connected; connectedness.
1603Florio Montaigne ii. xi. (1632) 237 The Peripatetikes doe also disavow this connexitie and indissoluble knitting together (of the virtues). 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 235 The superficial connexity of our Heels. 1886Athenæum 31 July 140/1 The universal connexity of existence is as clear to him as to Dionysius Areopagitus.
†2. concr. A thing or matter connected. Obs.
1645Treaty w. Spain in C. King Brit. Merch. III. 150, I grant you the most full and complete Power and most ample Commission, as by Law is required and necessary, with their Incidencies, Dependencies, Annexities and Connexities.
3. Math. and Logic. The property of being connected (5).
1905E. V. Huntington in Ann. Math. 2nd Ser. VI. 157 If a and b are distinct elements of K, then either a ‹ b or b < a. This postulate has been called by Russell the postulate of connexity. 1907E. W. Hobson Theory of Functions §40 The most important properties of a function may still subsist even if the domain of the variable lacks the property of connexity. 1925A. N. Whitehead Science & Mod. World (1926) 235 The third condition to be satisfied by an abstractive hierarchy will be called the condition of connexity. 1934Cohen & Nagel Introd. Logic vi. 115 A relation with this property is said to have connexity. 1941A. Tarski Introd. Logic vii. 161 These theorems are known as the ‘laws of connexity’. |